US special envoy to Sudan holds meeting in New York
September 23, 2009 (WASHINGTON) — The US special envoy to Sudan Scott Gration will hold a series of meetings with several world diplomats on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meetings that started this week in New York.
The US official also said that he will participate in trilateral meetings with Egypt and Norway as well as a meeting of special envoys from UK and Norway.
He did not say whether he intends to meet with Sudanese officials currently present in New York. Sudan’s delegation to the UN General Assembly meetings is led by presidential adviser Ghazi Salah Al-Deen.
Salah Al-Deen is also the head of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) team in the tripartite commission with Sudan People Liberation Movement (SPLM) and the US that looks into progress in implementing the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA).
The commission has held two rounds so far with the latest taking place this month in South Sudan capital of Juba.
The NCP and SPLM failed to break the deadlock on the referendum law and the census results that are to be used in determining the geographical constituencies but the South asserts the figures were rigged and rejects it.
Gration expressed disappointment at the time but vowed to continue discussions during the UN General Assembly meetings.
In his blog the US envoy said that he wants to “galvanize international support for building peace and stability for Sudan” with the support of the international community.
He pinpointed the CPA implementation and uniting rebel groups fighting in a separate conflict in Sudan western region of Darfur.
Efforts by the US, Libya and Egypt aimed at uniting the increasingly fragmenting rebel groups have yielded little success.
Gration emphasized that “the Government of Sudan, the Darfuri armed movements, the Government of Southern Sudan, and other Sudanese stakeholders who bear the final responsibility for bringing peace and stability to Sudan”.
“The international community’s responsibility is to facilitate and to hold the parties in Sudan accountable for their actions,” he added.
Today the US president Barack Obama told the UN General Assembly that his administration will “will pursue a lasting peace in Sudan through support for the people of Darfur, and the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, so that we secure the peace that the Sudanese people deserve”.
The US administration is coming under increasing criticism from Sudan activists who claim that Obama has reneged on his presidential campaign promises to take a more tougher approach with Khartoum.
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K Bambo
US special envoy to Sudan holds meeting in New York
A failed US Diplomat. Now you are going around shopping for peace solutions. What a shame on President Obama for appointing such a General who has no diplomatic career. Time is running out Mr. General.
Ken
Otong
US special envoy to Sudan holds meeting in New York
Mr. Gration we know you are trying very hard to make NCP/NIF to implement the CPA, it too lat to implement the remaining 80% of the agreement at the moment, remember we only have 15 months before South Sudanese vote for separation, we will declare our independent state whether the CPA has been fully implemented or not.
Sudan virus
US special envoy to Sudan holds meeting in New York
Oboma administration is just a Frog move in the Sudan! It will not meet the time limit for the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA)provisions/interim period, and is at the verge of backsliding North Sudan(Khartoum)and south Sudan into war again.
It allows time for people who what popularize themselves by
leisure fair(not caring) politics and at the suffering of the
illiterate and poor.
jalabi
US special envoy to Sudan holds meeting in New York
I think Obama new administration has disappointed many separatist southerners, unlike the other US administrations, Obama administration is more realistic and fair (to some degree) when it comes to Africa and middle east conflict, the previous Bush administration was clearly supporting SPLM/A and never hide their sympathy to them and used all their diplomats and power to make NCP and north give more concessions everytime to SPLM/A. I think this administration has arrived in the white house at a very bad time for separatists as the referendum has become very close and this administration is not eager to support new independent south Sudan, normally western countries follow the same policy and strategy in public politics, the European union has made it very clear that they don’t prefer to see divide Sudan and soon Obama administration will follow them despite the right wing and Christians wing in the congress attempt to put barrier against Obama administration policy.
SPLM/A has agreed to allow southerners in the north to vote in the referendum despite they know very well that NCP will win if this is going to be the case because the current administration didn’t make any pressure on NCP government but talking about lifting the sanction instead.
Yet worse to come and be prepared as no news is good news, sorry guys but that’s the way it is!
Jalabi (Abo Jalabia)