AU official to arrive in Sudan for talks on Abyei
May 5, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Jean Ping, is expected to arrive in Sudan on Monday to hold talks with northern and southern officials concerning the ongoing situation in the country’s flashpoint region of Abyei.
A press release issued by African Union on Sunday said that Ping arrive in Sudan to hold talks with officials in Khartoum and Juba respectively in order to encourage them to “spare no effort in order to overcome the current difficulties in Abyei through dialogue.”
The release said that the visit would also aim to encourage the successful conclusion of north-south negotiations on the outstanding aspects of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), which ended north-south civil wars in 2005, as well as on arrangements to bifurcate the country ahead of South Sudan secession in July.
According to the AU, Ping will also travel to El Fashir in the country’s war-battered region of Darfur to meet with the senior leadership of African Union –United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) and attend the opening ceremony of the 8th Session of Committee of Intelligence and Security Services of Africa (CISA) in Khartoum, on 6 June 2011.
The AU release also pointed out that Ping met on Saturday in his office at the AUC Headquarters in Addis Ababa with representatives of the CPA troika, composed of Special Envoys Princeton Lyman (United States), Michael Ryder (United Kingdom) and Tom Vraalsen (Norway) on the situation in Abyei.
The AUC chairperson told the Torika representatives that he would discuss with the leadership in Khartoum and Juba ways to de-escalate tension in Abyei Area.
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Lorolokin
AU official to arrive in Sudan for talks on Abyei
To Mr Ping,
Be neutral when it come to these sensitive issue of Abyei, Abyei is Southern Sudanese if you check Arabs dictionaries ,there is nothing call Abyei in arabi so then why is our Sub-Arabs brothers wanted to annex Abyei,is it because of its oil and green pasture ? never.Basher the world most wanted fugitive is playing a dirty game which will not help not only Basher and Ali Al Manafi in particular and the whole N.sudan in general. this time round southern sudan is no longer going to be a battle ground it will be khartoum mark my tongue.
Kinkak
Paul Ongee
AU official to arrive in Sudan for talks on Abyei
Jean Ping doesn’t have to flip-flop this time. The AU money should be spent on finding real resolution to Abyei problem otherwise things will be different in Khartoum, leave alone Abyei, South Kordofan, Southern Blue Nile and Darfur. The war outside Khartoum would never make sense at all. It should be brought here as JEM did it in May 2008 for NCP to feel how it tastes.