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El-Bashir warns there'll be no peace with South Sudan unless....
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - President Omar el-Bashir of Sudan has made it clear his delegation to the peace negotiations with South Sudan in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, next week will accept no other peace arrangement other than the one under which Juba was recognized last year.
President el-Bashir told the top brass of his ruling National Congress on Saturday that there was no way his country would reach an agreement on security matters with South Sudan if the two failed to agree on a specific map under which the South gained independence in June 2011, and the one upon which the whole 2005 peace agreement (CPA) was based to end the 23-year-old civil war in the country.
El-Bashir, President of the Republic and Chairperson of the ruling National Congress, stressed that Sudan “will never accept any security arrangements except those reached in line with the arrangement which United Nations–African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) is currently operating".
The President was referring to 1 January, 1956, the year Sudan gained independence from the Egyptian British condominium rule.
“We will accept no other map,” he warned while responding to a proposal South Sudan presented based on pre-independence historical claims that cut large areas of South Sudan, including the disputed areas.
He said there would be no security or other arrangement until agreement is reached on the zero line that separates the South Sudan from the North.
He assured that the Sudanese delegation to the negotiations would be patient and continue the dialogue until Khartoum obtained all its right.
”But we will not make any new concessions, after the huge compromises we had made for reaching peace and for cementing unity, only to receive, in response, treason and backstabbing," el-Bashir said.
The president was quoted by the official Sudan national radio of Omdurman as stressing that his country would remain committed to the implementation of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 2046.
The president warned that without promptly handling the security issues during the talks, there would be no peace, oil, trade exchange, and freedom of movement between the two countries.
Reviewing what he called "sacrifices made by Sudan", el-Bashir criticized the international community for issuing "the unfair Resolution" because it put the aggressor and the oppressed at the same level.
Sudan said it received an official invitation from the African Union High level Implementation Panel (AUHLIP), chaired by former South African President Thabo Mbeki, to return to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the resumption of negotiations on 19 June.
The talks were interrupted after the two sides differed on the map to be used for deciding the zero line from which each country would withdraw its troops ten kilometres, according to the UNSC resolution 2046.
Sudan is accusing the south of coming up with a map that annexed several Sudanese areas, including Higlig, for which South Sudan had been accused of invading.
-0- PANA MO/VAO 16June2012
President el-Bashir told the top brass of his ruling National Congress on Saturday that there was no way his country would reach an agreement on security matters with South Sudan if the two failed to agree on a specific map under which the South gained independence in June 2011, and the one upon which the whole 2005 peace agreement (CPA) was based to end the 23-year-old civil war in the country.
El-Bashir, President of the Republic and Chairperson of the ruling National Congress, stressed that Sudan “will never accept any security arrangements except those reached in line with the arrangement which United Nations–African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) is currently operating".
The President was referring to 1 January, 1956, the year Sudan gained independence from the Egyptian British condominium rule.
“We will accept no other map,” he warned while responding to a proposal South Sudan presented based on pre-independence historical claims that cut large areas of South Sudan, including the disputed areas.
He said there would be no security or other arrangement until agreement is reached on the zero line that separates the South Sudan from the North.
He assured that the Sudanese delegation to the negotiations would be patient and continue the dialogue until Khartoum obtained all its right.
”But we will not make any new concessions, after the huge compromises we had made for reaching peace and for cementing unity, only to receive, in response, treason and backstabbing," el-Bashir said.
The president was quoted by the official Sudan national radio of Omdurman as stressing that his country would remain committed to the implementation of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 2046.
The president warned that without promptly handling the security issues during the talks, there would be no peace, oil, trade exchange, and freedom of movement between the two countries.
Reviewing what he called "sacrifices made by Sudan", el-Bashir criticized the international community for issuing "the unfair Resolution" because it put the aggressor and the oppressed at the same level.
Sudan said it received an official invitation from the African Union High level Implementation Panel (AUHLIP), chaired by former South African President Thabo Mbeki, to return to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the resumption of negotiations on 19 June.
The talks were interrupted after the two sides differed on the map to be used for deciding the zero line from which each country would withdraw its troops ten kilometres, according to the UNSC resolution 2046.
Sudan is accusing the south of coming up with a map that annexed several Sudanese areas, including Higlig, for which South Sudan had been accused of invading.
-0- PANA MO/VAO 16June2012
