Gov’t, SPLM-N to hold decisive meeting on Sudan’s Two-Areas
November 21, 2015 (ADDIS ABABA) – Sudanese warring parties in the Blue Nile and South Kordofan states will hold a decisive meeting on Sunday, as the mediation provided them with new proposals aiming to bridge the gaps on their positions.
However, the Sudanese government rejected the AUHIP propositions and accused the mediation of entirely endorsing the SPLM-N position.
But the chief mediator Thabo Mbeki held a meeting with the heads of the two delegations, Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamid and Yasir Arman, followed by another meeting for the negotiating teams lasted five hours in the evening.
Sudan Tribune learnt that the meeting discussed the responses of the two parties to the propositions of the mediators, and decided to form a four-member committee to draft the points of agreement and discord that appeared during the discussions.
The drafting committee is composed of Yasir Arman and Ahmed Abdel Rahman from the SPLM-N and Jamal Adawi and Hussein Hamdi form the government delegation.
The two negotiating teams will meet on Sunday.
Before the meeting of the two delegations, the government spokesperson Hamdi told reporters that the mediation propositions combined between the government position on the permanent ceasefire with the other issues that will begin with a cessation of hostilities.
He also showed optimism over a possible progress in the discussions.
The Sudanese presidential Ibrahim Hamid who lead the government team told the opening session of the talks on 19 November that they came to resume talks from where the parties had stopped last year, to finalize the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed in 2005.
(ST)