SPLM official says recent Bashir-Kiir meeting on referendum was a ‘failure’
September 8, 2010 (KHARTOUM) – A meeting that took place in late August between the Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir held with his Vice President and president of South Sudan Salva Kiir to discuss progress on preparations for referendum has failed to break deadlock on a number of issues, a senior official from the Sudan People Liberation Movement (SPLM) said today.
Yasir Arman, the deputy SPLM Secretary General for the North Sector, slammed the ruling National Congress party (NCP) headed by Bashir saying that it is buying time and lacks the political will to clear the impediments to holding the referendum.
The SPLM official said in press statements that the outstanding items such as financing the referendum commission or other technical issues could be resolved in one month should the NCP possess the will.
He warned that there are several options for the ex-Southern rebel group should the referendum process break down including de-legitimizing the federal government or having all political powers unite to present the alternative for the government.
Arman however went back to say that this is a stage has not yet been reached and that the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) need to be implemented.
Furthermore, he stressed that the remaining 100 days before the referendum date should be enough to complete all its prerequisites and that there is no excuse to ask for any postponement or extension.
The referendum commission which only recently appointed its secretary general after long delay, announced this week that registering Southern voters will start next month which will also include expatriates.
The referendum is a key provision of the 2005 peace deal that ended the south’s 22-year civil war with the north, during which about two million people were killed in a conflict fueled by religion, ethnicity, ideology and natural resources, including oil.
Many observers believe that the commission has little time to complete its work before January. Furthermore, the NCP insists that referendum cannot take place without agreeing on post-referendum arrangements such as the border demarcation.
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Gatwech
SPLM official says recent Bashir-Kiir meeting on referendum was a ‘failure’
Dear readers,
NCP thugs in Khartoum have been trying their evil best to delay the conduct of the referendum, less do they know that the South has more than one road to establish its independent state come the D-Day!
julius mowanga
SPLM official says recent Bashir-Kiir meeting on referendum was a ‘failure’
How about Abyei Referendum? has it been compromised or dead??I do not see anybody care about that issue,isn’t as greater as the main referendum?
paul baak anyaar
SPLM official says recent Bashir-Kiir meeting on referendum was a ‘failure’
Referendum vote is a foregone conclusion. Southerners are going to vote for Separation, period. CPA has outgrown and can no longer fit the small mouths of individuals. Neither Bashir nor Kiir can change a modicum of our decision to secede at this point and time.
paul baak anyaar
SPLM official says recent Bashir-Kiir meeting on referendum was a ‘failure’
Referendum vote is a foregone conclusion. Southerners are going to vote for Separation, period. CPA has outgrown and can no longer fit the small mouths of individuals. Neither Bashir nor Kiir can change a modicum of our decision to secede at this point and time.
Abraham Majur Lam
SPLM official says recent Bashir-Kiir meeting on referendum was a ‘failure’
To assure NCP with their tricks we are not bother we southerners there come 9th Jan 2011 they witness our decion.