Leaderships of Sudanese parties, political forces to meet in February in Libya

The Sudanese daily Alwan said on Friday that six of the leaderships of the Sudanese political parties and forces which have effect on the Sudanese political arena will meet in the Libyan capital during the first week of February. This meeting will be in implementation of the decisions of the tripartite meetings of the foreign ministers of Egypt, Sudan and Libya to revive the Egyptian- Libyan joint initiative.

The paper added, according to well-informed sources that leaders of the political forces who will take part in the meeting were invited officially. They are the first Sudanese vice President Ali Othman Muhammad Taha, the leader of the opposition coalition Muhammad Othman al-Meir Ghani, the leader of the al-Ummah party al-Sadeq al-Mahdi, the leader of the people's conference party Dr. Hassan al-Turabi in addition to a figure from Southern Sudan which was described by the sources as effective but without disclosing its identity.

The paper said that the surprising visit currently held by Muhammad Othman al-Meir Ghani to Asmara aimed at convincing John Garang to take part in Tripoli's meeting.