Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party (NCP) has accused rebel group SPLM-North of seeking to continue the war despite efforts to stop it and end the suffering of the people of Blue Nile and South Kordofan states.

The political bureau of NCP in a meeting chaired by Omar al-Bashir ended late Thursday morning said the failure of the latest round of informal talks in Berlin shows that the SPLM-North is reluctant and wants to impose its agenda since its rebellion in 1983 rather than compromising.

The party said it is committed to dialogue as the only way to bring peace and stability to the country.

The deputy chairman of NCP, Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamed, said in statement to press after the meeting that the political bureau was briefed on the two rounds of talks with SPLM-North and Darfur movements in Berlin and Addis Ababa.

The two areas of South Kordofan and Blue Nile border South Sudan and were previously controlled by the same rebel movement that came to rule South Sudan, but they were not included in the territory that would become the Republic of South Sudan, resulting in a split between SPLM and SPLM-North.