Two Sudanese parties maintain agreement

Rapprochement steps have started between the Sudanese Ummah party led by al-Sadeq al-Mahdi with the chairman of the People's Congress party led by Hassan al-Turabi in a meeting they held on Monday evening.

In their meeting which lasted for three hours, the two sides discussed the national agenda proposed by al-Ummah party to achieve sustainable democracy and maintain a peacefully rotating presidency through wide national alliance.

The Sudanese daily al-Rai al-Am issued on Tuesday in al-Khartoum said that al-Sadeq al-Mahdi received on Monday evening a delegation representing the leading people's congress led by Dr. Ali al-Haj Muhammad and discussed with its members the current political conditions in the country and the possibility of co-ordination and future alliance in the service of national agenda.

Ali al-Haj told the paper that the meeting was comprehensive in which the two sides discussed reconciliation, peace, democracy and freedom issues and problems challenging the country at all levels.