US Bush reiterates support for peace in Sudan
Jan 6, 2006 (KHARTOUM) — U.S. President George W. Bush has reiterated his administration’s support for the implementation of peace accords in Sudan, the official SUNA reported here on Friday.
Bush reiterates his position in a letter sent to Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir on Friday through the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum, the report said.
In the letter, Bush reiterated support of his administration for the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) and the Addis Ababa understandings.
He called on all parties to be characterized with the spirit of responsibility and to work seriously in order to realize peace, saying that sincerity of intentions would enhance unity, stability and permanent peace in Sudan.
The Sudanese government signed the CPA with the former rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) on Jan. 9, 2005 to end the 21-year-old civil war between northern and southern Sudan.
On May 5 last year, the Sudanese government signed the DPA with a main Darfur rebel faction in the Nigerian capital Abuja, but the agreement has been rejected by other rebel groups in the war-torn western Sudanese region.
According to understandings reached between the United Nations, the African Union and the Sudanese government in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Nov. 16, the UN will provide logistic, technical and consultative support for African troops in Darfur in three phases until a UN-AU hybrid peacekeeping force is formed in the region.
(Xinhua)