Sudan accuses peace mediator of supporting US positions in Darfur peace process
May 14, 2011 (KHARTOUM) — Sudan accused the Joint Chief Mediator Djibril Bassole of supporting the positions of US administration at the ongoing peace process in Doha to end the eight year conflict in Darfur.
Smith asked Khartoum to not block the arrival of a rebel delegation from Darfur to Doha. He also proposed to postpone talks on the security arrangements and the implementation mechanisms of the peace agreement to the period after the stakeholders conference which will take place at the end of May in Doha.
The spokesperson of the Government of Sudan (GOS) delegation, Omer Adam Rahama, accused on Saturday Bassole of supporting the US positions at the negotiating table in Doha because he aspires to realize political interests for his country Burkina Faso where he is appointed minister of foreign affairs recently.
“Bassole surprised the government delegation by brining Smith to a meeting between GOS and JEM to discuss the resumption of talks,” said Rahma in a statement to the semi official SMC website. He further said the Joint Chief Mediator used to support the positions that prolong the negotiations.
The Sudanese delegation spokesperson added the government does not object the presence at negotiating table of the U.S. envoy to Darfur as an observer but not as a broker or a partner to the negotiations.
Djibiril Bassole, since his re-appointment last month as foreign minister in a ministerial reshuffle in Burkina Faso, thought to resign from his post as chief mediator but the UN Secretary General asked his country to allow him to end a process he put in place since two years ago.
The Sudanese government expressed willingness to sign a peace agreement with the Liberation and Equality Movement (LJM) and slammed JEM saying it was not seriously interested in a peace deal.
The talks between the two parties are deadlocked on the administrative status of Darfur region and the security arrangements. JEM rebels accuse Khartoum of wanting to sign only a separate deal with the LJM and close the Doha process with the rebel groups.
US envoy to Sudan Princeton Lyman during a recent trip to Doha, where he met the three parties participating in the Doha process, underlined Washington’s preference for a broad peace agreement that includes all the rebel groups.
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Sudan accuses peace mediator of supporting US positions in Darfur peace process
Dear readers,
The claim by the Sudanese government that the peace mediator is supporing US positions in Darfur peace process is not true. This man is doing a good job through judicious means that is why they are hanging on his neck. this kind of accusation is a doing according to the priniciple that the best way to refute true allegation is by directly accusing or counter-accusing the party from which the truth come from. This is not a development principle but an opportunistic one.
I hope that the mediator keeps standing on the road that he is currently on, this is the only way in which the sticking issues could be address amicably.
Thanks
Dr.Lologo
Sudan accuses peace mediator of supporting US positions in Darfur peace process
Dear readers and Sudanese nationalist
Southern Sudanese, Nubians and Darfurians,
My brothers and sisters, Southern Sudanese, Nubians and Darfurians, please from today you can just read the news in Sudan tribune but do not comments, because they using the comments to analyst their interests.
My brothers and sisters, Southern Sudanese, Nubians and Darfurians, Sudan Tribune is intelligent for FRENCH government
Sudan tribune is control by French intelligent services (DRM & DGSE), please and please read the news but do not comments.
If you really nationalist for shake of you country please do not comments, you even learned from the way they deleting some other people comments because of the truth you guys are telling but they don’t want the truths out.
DR. Francis Lologo
Moscow – Russia
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Sudan accuses peace mediator of supporting US positions in Darfur peace process
Brother Francis,
Thank you very much for opening our eyes on this critical issue, indeed, I am always curious about the website as they tend to delete some comments and keep some for reasons that are only known to themselves. Yes, I totally agree with you on the issue that they are using our comments to analyse their interests and to see where our weakness is or what strategies they can take to put us on fire.
For these reasons, I am kindly asking my brothers in south sudan, in Darfur and in Nuba mountains to refrain from commenting on this site as soon as you received the message. Dr. Francis, again thank you for your important information.
Thanks