Mohamed Mukhtar Al Khateeb, Secretary General of the Sudanese Communist Party (SCP), has criticized the international community for trying to push the opposition group to sign the African Union peace roadmap agreement and join the National Dialogue.
In his address during the sixth convention of the party on Sunday, Mukhtar said his party will not join the National dialogue without any guarantees to meet and implement the dialogue’s requirements including transfer of power through peaceful means and democratic transformation.
For his party, Al Sadiq Al Mahdi, leader of the opposition National Umma Party (NUP), announced over the weekend that the Sudan Appeal group will meet with the African mediator Thabo Mbeki on 7 August in Addis Ababa to discuss the roadmap for peace and sign it after amendments.
According to a statement issued recently by the opposition coalition in Paris, the African mediator agreed to amend the peace roadmap. But the Sudanese government rejected any amendments to the peace roadmap.
The Sudanese information minister Ahmed Bilal Osman told Radio Tamazuj that they will not accept any amendments to the African Union roadmap. “The Sudan Appeal force should sign it as it is and then raise its observations later” he said.