The Sudanese government has reaffirmed its commitment to reach a final resolution to the conflict in Blue Nile and South Kordofan States. Negotiations between the government and SPLA-North are scheduled to resume at the same time and in the same location as the South Sudan’s peace process.

Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Karti spoke to the press on Khartoum in Sunday after meeting with Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende. He stated that the government is exerting great efforts to find an amicable solution to the conflicts across Sudan.

On the same day, SPLM-N Secretary-General Yasser Arman revealed that they received an invitation from African Union mediators to resume negotiations with the Sudanese government in Addis Ababa on 5 February, the same day as South Sudan’s peace talks are set to resume.

Brende and Karti reportedly also discussed the role that Sudan could play within the IGAD bloc, which is mediating the current peace talks between the South Sudan government and the SPLM/A in Opposition in Addis Ababa, according the Sudanese minister.

Karti affirmed Sudan’s neutrality in the conflict in South Sudan. For his part, the Norwegian minister commended the positive role played by Sudan in the peace negotiations in Addis Ababa.

The representative of the Sudanese government on the IGAD mediation committee, Mohamed Ahmed al Dabi, has welcomed the ceasefire signed by South Sudanese negotiators last Thursday.

General Al Dabi, a former chief of Sudanese military intelligence, told Radio Tamazuj in an interview broadcast Saturday that the enforcement of the ceasefire in any particular area would be the responsibility of the party that controls that area.

He pointed out that the agreement on detainees did not set a date for their release explaining, “It doesn’t say whether they should be released today, or tomorrow, or after a month or whenever. But that is an obligation from the side of the mediation.” 

File photo: Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Karti

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