Meetings of Libyan - Egyptian initiative committee to achieve reconciliation in Sudan start

The meetings of the joint Egyptian - Libyan initiative committee started yesterday evening to discuss means of achieving a comprehensive political resolution among all the Sudanese parties.

Ibrahim Ali Hasan, the assistant foreign minister for African affairs, who arrived at Tripoli yesterday is heading the Egyptian side in this technical committee, while Soleiman El Shehomi, the general writer for affairs of north Africa's union in the general Libyan public committee for the external communications and international cooperation and secretary of the communication committee in the revolutionary committees movement will head the Libyan side.

Hasan yesterday afternoon, after arriving in Tripoli, asserted the importance of making haste in achieving a comprehensive political settlement in Sudan in the framework of the Egyptian - Libyan initiative.

In press statements, Hasan said his assignment is consulting in the framework of the technical committee for the Libyan -Egyptian initiative concerning Sudan, aiming at pushing the efforts forward toward achieving a comprehensive settlement and convening a conference of the collective national discussion which includes all the Sudanese parties in the framework of this initiative.

In answering a question on whether he is preparing for the Libyan - Sudanese - Egyptian trilateral meeting scheduled to be held in Cairo in February, Ibrahim Hasan said, "The aim is providing all chances and pushing forward the efforts toward preparing for the collective Sudanese national conference and making haste in convening it."