SPLM-N ready to discuss U.S. humanitarian proposal: Agar
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SPLM-N leader Malik Agar (2L) attends a graduation ceremony for SPLA-N
fighters in Blue Nile State on 29 January 2017 - (ST photo)
February 6, 2017 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North
(SPLM-N) leader Malik Agar reiterated their readiness to discuss the
U.S. proposal to deliver humanitarian assistance to civilians in the
rebel-controlled areas in South Kordofan and Blue Nile states,
stressing what they refuse is the control of the whole operation by
the government.
in a bid to break the deadlock in the peace talks between the Sudanese
government and SPLM-N, the former U.S. Special Envoy Donald Booth last
November proposed that the USAID will deliver medical humanitarian aid
to civilian in the rebel held areas by air directly after its
inspection from the government.
The SPLM-N declined the proposal insisting on the need to transport
20% of the humanitarian aid directly from Ethiopian border town of
Asosa to the rebel areas.
In an audio statement obtained by Sudan Tribune, Agar who was speaking
last Saturday in the SPLM-Controlled areas in the Blue Nile said the
SPLM-N didn’t reject the "Sudanese American proposal", as he said.
The proposal provides that the USAID will deliver specific
humanitarian assistance through an internal corridor to the United
Nations workers in the SPLM areas, explained Agar in remarks delivered
at a promotion ceremony for SPLA Second Division officers on Saturday.
"This gives the Sudanese government the upper hand in the
(humanitarian) operation, and we should keep in mind the experience of
UNAMID in Darfur," he added.
The SPLM-N rejected the Sudanese government control of the
humanitarian operation but didn’t decline the U.S. proposal or the
proposal of the African Union mediation which provides to deliver the
aid across Asosa town on the Ethiopian Sudanese border, he said.
The SPLM-N sticks to the direct delivery of 20% of humanitarian
assistance through Ethiopia, pointing that the African Union High
Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) supports this idea.
Sources close to the file disclosed that the SPLM-N in its response to
the U.S. proposal underscored that the safe humanitarian corridor
through Asosa would enable the SPLM-N to transport its sick or wounded
fighters for treatment from the land-locked controlled areas. Also
this corridor enable the rebel leadership and delegates to reach the
venue of peace talks and return to their bases for consultations, they
said.
Sudanese government rejected Asosa corridor, saying it’s a violation
of the state’s sovereignty and also allows the rebel to bring arms and
ammunition from outside.
However, Agar called to not exclude Asosa corridor from the
negotiating table stressing that there are "two proposals on the
table, that one of the AUHIP and "the U.S. proposal with the proposed
amendments’’.
"And we are ready to discuss the two proposals," he said.
Recently it was reported that the AUHIP mediators filed new proposals
for the negotiating parties, and it is expected to convene a meeting
between the armed groups and a Sudanese committee tasked with the
implementation of the national dialogue outcome.
But Agar denied being invited to resume talks with the government.
Also, he said they are not concerned by the outcome of the
government-led dialogue process but they call for an inclusive and
comprehensive dialogue, and a preparatory meeting to discuss the
creation of a conducive environment before this constitutional
process, in line with the African Union Roadmap Agreement
He further said they expect that an invitation be extended by the
AUHIP for a consolations-meeting.
He said the SPLM-N is ready for peace and war alike.
"The regime challenged us in the past and can challenge us again but
we are ready to take up the challenge until the Sudanese get their
full rights. We will not accept half-solutions and will not postpone
the war for future generations," he added.
(ST)
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