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Egypt's foreign minister in Sudan for mediation talks
Oct 17, 2007, 10:29 GMT
Cairo - Egypt's foreign minister and intelligence chief was due to arrive in Sudan on Wednesday to mediate in the standoff between the central government in Khartoum and its southern coalition partner from the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM).
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmad Abul-Ghait said at a press conference on Tuesday he and the intelligence chief, Omar Soliman, would meet the Sudanese president in Khartoum and former southern rebels in Juba, southern Sudan, to mediate in the ongoing crisis.
The SPLM froze its participation in the national government last week. The move was triggered by what SPLM saw as a stalemate in the implementation of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
The agreement ended 21 years of civil war between the predominantly Arab Muslim north and the Christian and animist south.
Egypt, which borders Sudan, has been traditionally a power broker in Sudanese politics.
Abul-Ghait urged all Sudanese sides to iron out their differences.
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Lokosang LukwasaOct 17th, 2007 - 15:58:36
Since liberation began in Sudan South, there are no single Arab country supporting south sudanese only standing with Khartoum government and supporting in kind and financially to deal out with poor citizen of south sudan in order to gain river nile water for caltivation and other use. Therefore, what is new for foreign minister of Egypt to go up to South Sudan. They just want to go politically and cheat people and come back and talk to they brothers in northern. These time south Sudan people is not like people in 1940 which can be cheated by radios and money, most of us stay in Khartoum and know Arabs properly and the only solution is the division of Sudan and no second class citizen as the thinking of this NCP government in Khartoum use to divide.
HOWEVER, The step taken by the SPLA came in a right time and the solution must be there before any thing.
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