Inter- Sudanese peace talks this month
Sudan, Politics, 3/1/2003

The Sudanese vice president Moussa Mashar who is on a work visit to South Africa on top of a delegation composed of three ministers announced on Thursday that the Sudanese peace talks will be resumed on March 4th in Nairobi.

The Sudanese official said in conclusion of a meeting with the vice president of South Africa Jacob Zouma that the peace talks which will be resumed on March 4th will deal with sharing the resources and the authority." He added that the "the process is promising and we do hope of reaching peace within months."

However, the former round of the Sudanese peace talks which was concluded on February 6th on agreeing on certain points on the provisional government and continued work of the July agreement which debated the principle of sharing the authority during a provisional period of 6 years.

Last Thursday diplomatic sources announced from Nairobi that the forthcoming round of talks between the government of Khartoum and the rebels will be resumed on March 19th in Nairobi to be preceded on March 1st by a meeting for the two delegations of the two sides dealing in particular with the fate of the lands under conflict in the hinterland of Sudan.

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