Source ::: AFP
Doha: The most active rebel group in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region said after new talks with Qatari mediators yesterday that Khartoum was not serious in its pursuit of peace efforts.
“The movement feels that the government is not serious in the issue of peace as a whole and it has not taken a strategic decision to push ahead towards peace,” Justice and Equality Movement representative Abubakr Al Kadi said.
“It wants one thing out of the Doha negotiations, which is obtaining a ceasefire so it can carry out its other objectives in Sudan and Darfur, especially with regard to the elections, because during the elections the people will vote for JEM and not the government.
“We are now waiting for the government to fulfil its promises in carrying out what was agreed upon, especially with regard to prisoner exchange and not interfering with aid groups,” Kadi added. Qatari-brokered talks between the Sudanese government and Darfur rebels have been postponed for two months, mainly because of disagreements over an exchange of prisoners, a senior rebel leader said on Friday.
JEM signed a confidence-building deal with the government in February intended to pave the way for a conference engaging all rebel groups and pro-government militias in the search for peace after six years of war. But the talks broke down after an international warrant was issued in March for the arrest of Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al Bashir on war crimes charges. They resumed in May in the Qatari capital with British, Chinese, French, Russian and US envoys attending.
The United Nations says up to 300,000 people have died and 2.7 million have fled their homes since ethnic minority rebels in Darfur rose up against the Arab-dominated regime in Khartoum in February 2003. Sudan says 10,000 have been killed.
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