Sudanese president urges Islamic movement to work “amongst southerners”

KHARTOUM, April 17, 2004 (Sudan Tribune) — Sudanese president Omar al-Beshir, who was addressing the closing meeting of the Islamic Movement Congress yesterday evening, suggested that the priorities of the Islamic Movement in the coming periods should be working amongst the southerners.

According to the Khartoum based Al-Sahafa daily newspaper, he has reiterated that signing of peace agreement with the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) has became imminent.

Al-Bashir, said the upcoming periods will witness an economic and political liberalism, during which many people will be returning from abroad, following their failure to destabilize the “Salvation” regime and defeat it militarily, adding “we shall defeat them politically as we had defeated them militarily.”

He cautioned that the periods after the peace agreement required an Islamic solidarity and unity in order to face the liberality and elections, to be held at all levels.
Sudanese President Omer Hassan al-Bashir pledged on Thursday April 15, not to abandon implementation of Islamic Sharia law, an issue currently obstructing peace talks in Naivasha, Kenya.

Addressing the convention of Islamic Movement in Sudan in Khartoum, al-Bashir affirmed that Islamic law would dominate life in the Sudanese capital even after the signing of a peace agreement with southern rebels.