The Sudanese government on Sunday held the United Nations
responsible for the delay in implementing a peace accord which was
signed by the government and a main rebel faction in the western
Sudanese region of Darfur but was refused by other rebel
groups.
"The UN has pledged to impose sanctions on the parties that did
not sign the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA), but it tended to reward
them," Sudanese Presidential Advisor Magzoub Al-Khalifa told
reporters after a meeting with representatives of the world body in
Sudan.
Al-Khalifa said that the UN had dispersed the efforts to reach
peace in Darfur through what it called the transfer of the
peacekeeping mission from the African Union (AU) to the UN.
He said that Khartoum was exerting all its efforts to contact
with the non-signatories of the DPA, adding that the contacts were
conducted in the framework of the peace agreement without
overstepping it or relaunching the negotiations on it.
The Sudanese government signed the AU-sponsored DPA with a main
faction of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) led by Mini Arkou
Minawi in the Nigerian capital Abuja on May 5, and Minawi was sworn
in as a senior assistant of the Sudanese president on Aug. 7.
Other rebel groups, including another SLM main faction led by
Abu al-Wahed Mohammed al-Nour and the Justice and Equality Movement
led by Khalil Ibrahim, have refused to sign the DPA, claiming that
the agreement was unfair and did not meet all their demands.
(Xinhua News Agency November 27, 2006)
