Bashir and Bassole discuss implementation of Doha agreement for peace in Darfur
July 31, 2011 (KHARTOUM) — The Sudanese president, Omer Al-Bashir discussed with the visiting Burkina Faso foreign minister, Djibril Bassole the implementation of the Doha peace agreement signed with a rebel movement and ways to include the other groups.
President Bashir tackled today evening with Bassole ways to implement the content of the Doha peace agreement and the bilateral relations between Sudan and Burkina Faso, reported the official Suna.
A Sudanese minister, Al-Samowal Khalfallah expressed the same request in Ouagadougou in a meeting of a joint committee on bilateral cooperation between Burkina Faso and Sudan on 20 July.
Karti on Saturday blamed the mediators of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed with the SPLM in 2005 saying they did not play any role to facilitate its enforcement. He further said the government wants to avoid the repetition of such inconvenient in the implementation of the Doha agreement.
Bassole who brokered the over two year Darfur process in Doha told reporters he is in contact with the Justice and Equality Movement which did not sign an agreement in Doha but demands further talks with the government. He spoke recently with Abdel Wahid Al-Nur, leader of a Sudan Liberation Movement group and urged him to join the Doha process.
The Burkina Faso top diplomat emphasized, in statements he made to the press following his meeting with President Al-Bashir on the need to include all the rebel groups in a comprehensive peace process.
The former mediator who faced difficulties to unite rebel groups or create a common ground between them, conceived a framework agreement based on the positions of rebel groups and the government. He also called for a stakeholders meeting to discuss the document and put out a final version endorsed by the conference.
Composed of seven chapters, the Doha peace document is proposed as basis of negotiations for peace in Darfur between the government and the different rebel groups. The LJM, which signed an agreement with Khartoum will chair the Darfur Regional Authority charged with the implementation of the 14 July deal.
The follow-up committee headed by the State of Qatar is expected to meet in Doha next September to discuss the next steps.
Sudanese government and JEM diverge on significance of the Doha document which is seen as untouchable by Khartoum while the rebel group says it is a base for negotiations and not a peace agreement.
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