Bashir rejects foreign mediation in talks with South Sudan
October 1, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s president Omer al-Bashir on Saturday said that his country seeks to promote dialogue with the newly independent South Sudan but without foreign mediation, ahead of a visit by his southern counterpart this week.
Addressing the first conference of his ruling National Congress Party’s (NCP) external affairs committee, Bashir said that Sudan attaches great importance to the relations with its former southern region and would therefore seek to promote dialogue and peace between the two neighbors in the international arena.
In his address, the Sudanese president further said that the secession was a political separation not a separation between the people.
However, Reuters and al-Jazeera reported that al-Bashir also rejected foreign mediation between the two countries which remain engaged in talks to thrash out a number of post-secession issues including sharing of oil revenues, violence in shared borders and ownership of the hotly-contested region of Abyei.
“We have to sort out all issues through dialogue but without any foreign mediation,” he said.
South Sudan minister of information and cabinet spokesperson, Barnaba Marial Benjamin told reporters Friday in Juba that President Kiir and an important delegation will fly to Khartoum next week for talks on pending issues such as border demarcation, foreign debt, oil transportation fees and Abyei.
During his meeting last September with Barak Obama, Kiir reportedly informed the American president he would met Bashir to decrease tension between the two capitals and reach a negotiated settlement to the outstanding issues. He also pledged to support a peaceful solution to the ongoing conflicts in the Blue Nile and Southern Kordofan.
The Sudanese president last July recently rejected any foreign mediation with the rebels Sudan People’s Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N) , South Sudan’s former allies who are fighting Sudan’s army in the two country’s border states with the South .
Bashir told his party’s conference that there would be zero-tolerance with whoever crosses the state’s “redlines” and seeks to undermine the security of citizens.
Last week, the Sudanese president said his government was open to negotiating a peaceful settlement to the war in South Kordofan and Blue Nile but without superseding the provisions of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) which in 2005 ended more than two decades of Sudan’s north south civil war and paved the way for South Sudan’s independence.
Speaking in the same meeting NCP deputy chairman Nafei Ali Nafei underscored that the shift of global economic power from the west to the East would be followed by a change in the world leadership.
Bashir said a meeting with the Chinese Communist Party will take place soon in Khartoum to discuss strategic relations between the two ruling parties.
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AdierCien
Bashir rejects foreign mediation in talks with South Sudan
In The Name Of The Trinity God Amen
I think al Bashir misunderstood the foreign delegate and South Sudan ‘s leaders, how can he suggest the outsiders in that way. They are not helping the South In any way. If they are doing that then even if he stop them still they have influence whatsoever. Please stop that idea we are alone, no one who voted us a Referendum.
SSLA Supporter
Bashir rejects foreign mediation in talks with South Sudan
Sudanese people in both Sudan and RoSS are capable of resolving their differences without any foreign conciliation provided that they have the political will to do just that!! So,President Bashir is right to decline foreign intervention to our internal affairs provided that both presidents must be willing to sit down and tackle the pending post-secession issues in a brotherly manner!!
Mungu Wangu
Bashir rejects foreign mediation in talks with South Sudan
Dear H.E.Salva Kiir Mayardit,
Watch out for visiting Khartoum,there’s a saying that says ” to kill a wounded a lion is a threat,if not fought,you get eaten” Bashir is making the last kick of a dying horse”
Am not yet convinced with the death of Dr.Garang,the devil man must be having hand in it,please check your steps before taking them to Khartoum again,Bashir,remember your days are numbered.
kimatong
Bashir rejects foreign mediation in talks with South Sudan
“We have to sort out all issues through dialogue but without any foreign mediation,”
Mr. Bashir sorting out all issues is a good idea, but why rejecting foreign mediation, if that will help in resolving the outstanding issues? What is the reason for the precondition rhetoric!
James-Maker-
Bashir rejects foreign mediation in talks with South Sudan
North Sudan Government is just pushing times. They are not doing anything Abeyi, they want to keep Abeyi as North Sudan while Abeyi is for South Sudan.