Arab League welcomes the end of Sudan peace crisis
December 27, 2007 (CAIRO) — The Cairo-based Arab League (AL) on Thursday welcomed understandings reached between the Sudanese government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM).
Only constructive dialogue can lead to overcoming obstacles in Sudan, it added.
Calling on the Sudanese people to close ranks, the AL urged the international community to offer assistance to Sudan in support of the peace march in the country.
Earlier in the day, seven new ministers in the Sudanese Government of National Unity were sworn in before President Omer al-Bashir in the Presidential Palace.
“The ministers have been sworn in as an official announcement on an end of the crisis between the two peace partners,” presidential spokesman Mahjoub Fadl Badri told reporters at the end of the ceremony.
Three new presidential advisers, who were appointed by the Sudanese president together with the seven new ministers on Wednesday, also took an oath of office in the same ceremony.
All the 10 persons are members of the SPLM, which took on Oct. 11 a surprising move of suspending its participation in the central government to protest against what it alleged of “a procrastination” in the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA).
The SPLM signed the CPA with the Sudanese government of al- Bashir in January 2005, to end the 21-year conflict between the north and south parts of the country, which was termed as one of the longest civil wars in the African continent.
(Xinhua)