November 4, 2007 (KHARTOUM) ‹ Sudanese First Vice President and Chairman of the Sudan People¹s Liberation Movement (SPLM) Salva Kiir Mayardit announced on Sunday that a current political crisis in the country had ended.
South Sudan leader and First Vice President Salva Kiir speaks during a press conference in Khartoum, Nov 4, 2007 (AFP) "I confirm that the crisis is over," Mayardit told a press conference in Khartoum before leaving to USA, noting that when Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir and he returned from visits abroad they would issue decisions on what had been agreed upon between them.
Al-Bashir left Khartoum on Saturday for a visit in Burundi and South Africa, while Salva Kiir will kick off a visit in the United States later Sunday.
The former rebel SPLM, which signed a peace agreement with al-Bashir¹s government in 2005, announced on Oct. 11 surprisingly a decision to suspend the participation of its ministers in the central government to protest over what it called a "procrastination" of the implementation of the peace deal.
"I confirm again that we are advancing on the peace road, and we want to send a placative message to the Sudanese people that we will not turn back from the implementation of the peace agreement, "Mayardit stressed.
He disclosed that in their last meeting, al-Bashir and he had worked out solutions for most of the differences, adding that the Abyei issue was the only pending problem to be solved soon.
The Khartoum government has insisted that Abyei, an enclave rich of oil locating on the north side of the so-called "1956 line " between the northern and southern Sudan, should be included in the northern territories while the southern Sudanese government led by Mayardit has laid a claim to it.
Mayardit said that his visit in the U.S. was aimed at informing the American administration of the progresses of implementing the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and enhancing the bilateral relations between the two countries.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Treasury issued a rule excluding southern Sudan from the sanctions imposed by Washington on Sudan since a decade.
The new rule revised the areas of Sudan covered by the sanctions and recognized the government of Southern Sudan as an entity separate from the Government of Sudan.
Monday, November 5, 2007
South Sudan says progress achieved to end peace crisis
November 2, 2007 (KHARTOUM) — Southern Sudan announced Friday evening that a tangible progress had been achieved in its meeting with Khartoum late in the day to remove the current political crisis between the two main partners in the central government.
Luka Biong, minister of presidency in the southern Sudan government, made the announcement following a meeting between Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir and First Vice President and Chairman of the former rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) Salva Kiir Mayardit who represents the south.
This was the third meeting between al-Bashir and Mayardit since the latter took a decision on Oct. 11 to withhold his movement’s participation in the central government in Khartoum, causing the most serious political crisis in more than two years.
Biong told the official SUNA news agency that al-Bashir and Mayardit had agreed to set up a technical committee to map out decisions regarding with the census, the demarcation of the permanent boundaries between northern and southern Sudan as well as the national unity.
He said that the two sides had ironed out all the differences except "simple problems" on the situations of the Abiye enclave and the interim boundaries, adding that these problems would be solved within two or three days.
"The president and the first vice president will issue in the next few days a decision to reactivate the partnership," Biong said.
On the return of the SPLM ministers to the central government, Biong said "we want that to be done in an official ceremony under the supervision of the president and the vice presidents to show the spirit of the agreement," referring to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed by al-Bashir’s government and the SPLM in2005.
In a meeting on Thursday, the Sudanese government and the SPLM reached agreements on a demilitarization of oilfields and cities as well as redeployments of the troops of the two sides in southern Sudan.
The two sides agreed that these steps would be completed by Jan.9, 2008, the third anniversary of the CPA signing, which is aimed to end the 21-year conflict between the them.
Luka Biong, minister of presidency in the southern Sudan government, made the announcement following a meeting between Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir and First Vice President and Chairman of the former rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) Salva Kiir Mayardit who represents the south.
This was the third meeting between al-Bashir and Mayardit since the latter took a decision on Oct. 11 to withhold his movement’s participation in the central government in Khartoum, causing the most serious political crisis in more than two years.
Biong told the official SUNA news agency that al-Bashir and Mayardit had agreed to set up a technical committee to map out decisions regarding with the census, the demarcation of the permanent boundaries between northern and southern Sudan as well as the national unity.
He said that the two sides had ironed out all the differences except "simple problems" on the situations of the Abiye enclave and the interim boundaries, adding that these problems would be solved within two or three days.
"The president and the first vice president will issue in the next few days a decision to reactivate the partnership," Biong said.
On the return of the SPLM ministers to the central government, Biong said "we want that to be done in an official ceremony under the supervision of the president and the vice presidents to show the spirit of the agreement," referring to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed by al-Bashir’s government and the SPLM in2005.
In a meeting on Thursday, the Sudanese government and the SPLM reached agreements on a demilitarization of oilfields and cities as well as redeployments of the troops of the two sides in southern Sudan.
The two sides agreed that these steps would be completed by Jan.9, 2008, the third anniversary of the CPA signing, which is aimed to end the 21-year conflict between the them.
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