SPLM deplores Sudanese president bellicose statements
November 18, 2007 (KHARTOUM) — The Sudan people’s Liberation Movement deplored Sudanese president calls threatening return to war. The SPLM whoever renewed its committeemen to the signed peace deal with its partner in peace, the National Congress Party.
Pagan was reacting to the Sudanese president, Omer al-Bashir, who ordered at celebrations organised by the Popular Defence Forces (PDF) on Saturday to reopen training camps for paramilitary forces, Popular Defences Forces, established by the regime in 1990 to wage war against the southern Sudan rebellion.
The SPLM Secretary General said his party is willing to resume the meetings of the six-members committee charged to discussed the implementation of the disputed issues, after the meeting between the president and his first deputy without elaborating.
However, the official SUNA said that president Omer al-Bashir and his first vice-president, Salva Kiir will meet on Monday.
Pagan pointed out in his statement the responsibility of the NCP in the crisis. He reaffirmed that the current political crisis between the peace partners is the result of ill implementation of the CPA, suggesting that it can’t be overcome without the full implementation of the peace accords.
To defend statements made by the chairman of the SPLM during his visit last week to Washington, Pagan said that the members of the IGAD, IGAD partners, and the UN have a moral responsibility to intervene to rescue the CPA if it faces risk of collapse.
In his speech Saturday, Bashir criticised Salva Kiir for his attempt to involve the UN Security Council and the US in the current crisis between the two partners. He said it would be better for him to resolve the pending issue through the appropriated mechanism instead of complaining abroad.
Yesterday, al-Bashir also made it clear that he will not implement the protocol of Abyei related to the status of the disputed oil rich area, requesting renegotiations but the SPLM secretary general demands in his statement the full implementation of the signed accords without any modification.
On 11 October, the SPLM suspended its participation in the government of national unity to protest against the delay in the implementation of the 2005 peace deal.
The US Administration proposed a series of measures to restore confidence between the two partners and to engage a tripartite mediation to resolve the issue of Abyei; but the SPLM leadership rejected the proposal.
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Mou Magok
SPLM deplores Sudanese president bellicose statements
It is clear that our Opponents in Khartoum declared war but the Southern politicians still said no war. How!
Arabs should not blindfold the Southerners this time. I issued in my first comment to Salva Kiir that Young Southerners are ready to face the North administrations either war or whatsoever.
Abyei issue is rejected by Bashir, What’s next? WAR! Yes or No? I believe that War is/will not be far in Sudan. Otherwise, Bashir Leadership has made it clear last Saturday.
SPLM OYEE!
Thank you,
Yirol boy
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Kifly Merhu
SPLM deplores Sudanese president bellicose statements
Is war a solution? Haven’t you learned from the past? Who benefits from war, the visionary rulers?, the external powers with their hidden agendas, who like to see a disintegrated Africa in order to exploite and dominate us? the ordinay Sudanese?
Whom belongs the Sudan at all, to some individuals, groups or to the ordinary people? Leave the ordinary Sudanese decide, whether they want to destroy themselves or they want to live in peace side by side as brothers/sisters.
It is very saddend to see the Horn people suffering, warmongering, chaos and havoc everywhere. Is the foolishness reside in our blood? We claim, we were the cradle of mankind, at the same time we are one of the poorest and the backwardest corner on the planet.