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Government
19 November 2015, Addis Abba, Ethiopia
Your Excellency, President Thabo Mbeki, Chair of the AUHIP,
The Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations, Haile Menkerios,
The Representative of IGAD and the Government of Ethiopia,
Observers,
The leader of the Sudan government delegation, Ibrahim Mahmoud,
Members of the Two Delegations,
Ladies and Gentleman of the Press and Media,
The current negotiations provided again a unique and rare chance to stop the war
all over Sudan from Blue Nile and South Kordofan/Nuba Mountains to Darfur and to
address the humanitarian crisis and the root causes of war as part of a
comprehensive political process that will lead to a credible national constitutional
dialogue that shall address how Sudan is going to be governed instead of who
governs it and to redefine our national project in a way that we will all subscribe and
contribute to it. A national project into which we will all be stakeholders as equal
citizens with equal constitutional rights that are not based in religion or ethnic
affiliations. This process has to address the particularities of the three war zones,
the Two Areas and Darfur, in a Sudan that is united on a new basis and in a manner
that would provide a model for other areas in the Sudan, and that will provide new
opportunities for women, youth and disadvantaged groups all over Sudan.
We are here today at a time where there is national, regional and international
support for a comprehensive peaceful settlement. We are here to implement the
African Peace and Security Resolution 539 and UN Security Council Resolution 2046.
It is encouraging for us in the SPLM-N that this 10th round of talks is focusing on the
need to reach a humanitarian cessation of hostilities that would address the needs
of millions of Sudanese in the three war zones. The political process and the
national constitutional dialogue would be meaningless if it did not stop the aerial
bombardment on the civilian populations and if it did not open the access for
humanitarian assistance as a right for the civilian populations. Denying it is a war
crime in international humanitarian law.
We would like to reiterate our full commitment to making this round of talks
successful. Our delegation, which is comprised of 21 delegates, who are not all
members of our movement, but who truly reflect the diversity of Sudan and reflect
our vision of building unity in diversity and reaching to the wider audience of Sudan,
is coming with an open heart and mind to examine all of the possibilities and
different options that will lead both parties to sign an agreement on a humanitarian
cessation of hostilities. It is encouraging that both parties made declarations of
intention on bi-lateral cessation of hostilities. It is time now for action for a joint