Sudanese Bashir will not meet Chadian Deby next week

November 25, 2008 (KHARTOUM) — Presidential adviser Mustafa Osman Ismail has dismissed reports about a meeting between Sudanese and Chadian presidents in the Qatari capital Doha next week on the sideline of a UN summit.

Ismail, who is responsible of relations with Chad, reiterated that the two parties agreed to hold a summit between Omer Al-Bashir and Idriss Deby “the date and the venue of the meeting have not yet been fixed.

These statements come in reaction to reports that Al-Bashir should meet with the Chadian president Idriss Deby Itno on the sideline of a UN sponsored summit to be held in Doha, Qatar on November 29.

Previously, the parties agreed to meet in Tripoli with the Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi who reconciliated the two presidents after an initiative he had launched last August.

Ismail further said that it was not certain that the Chadian Deby would attend Doha summit on Financing for Development (FfD).

Sudan had severed relations with Chad after a rebel raid on the capital Khartoum last May. The two countries accuse each other since 2005 of supporting respective rebels. According to non aggression agreement signed in Dakar on March 2008 the two countries have to deploy a 2000 strong force by the end of January 2009.

(ST)