Armed Movements Negotiate With Parties to the Conflict in Sudan's Crisis
Deputy Head of Sudan's Transitional
Military Council Lieutenant General Mohammad Hamdan Dagalo (Hamidati) and Sudan
Liberation Army’s Leader Minni Arko Minnawi are scheduled to hold the first
meeting of its kind in the Chadian capital, N'Djamena, according to Sudanese
local newspapers.
Hamidati announced early this week
releasing prisoners of the armed movements and forming a committee, led by him,
to negotiate with the armed rebel movements.
Meanwhile, the Darfur-based Justice
and Equality Movement (JEM), led by Jibril Ibrahim, and the Sudan Liberation
Movement welcomed holding talks with the Transitional Military Council.
South Sudan’s capital, Juba, will
also host an adverse meeting between a delegation from the Declaration of
Freedom and Change Forces (DFCF) and Commander of Sudan People's Liberation
Army/North Abdel Aziz al-Hilu, who called for holding the talks, sources told
Asharq Al-Awsat.
According to the sources, Hilu is
expected to propose a new initiative to deal with the Sudanese crisis, and
representatives of the DFCF will hand over their passports to the South
Sudanese Embassy in Khartoum and are expected to arrive in Juba on Saturday.
They pointed out that South Sudan’s
government, which had also proposed an initiative to resolve the conflict, is
only hosting the meeting, without playing any further role.
Meanwhile, different parts of Sudan
witnessed protests, demonstrations and rallies calling for handing over the
power to a civilian government, and the DFCF took over a joint
African-Ethiopian mediation initiative.
DFCF announced receiving a draft
agreement submitted by the joint African-Ethiopian mediation.
“On 27 June, the DFCF received a
draft for a proposed agreement submitted by the joint African-Ethiopian
mediation to agree with the Military Council on the basis of the Declaration of
Principles, it said in brief statement on its Facebook page.
It announced earlier that it has
agreed to the "Declaration of Principles" presented by the Ethiopian
mediator Mahmoud Dirar.
“We are now reviewing the proposal
submitted to decide in this regard,” said DFCF, commenting on the draft.
