A decisive meeting for the Sudanese opposition

Special meetings of the commission of the leadership of the Sudanese opposition Democratic National Coalition will start in Asmara, Eritrea. It will be chaired by the coalition's chairman Muhammad Othman al-Meirghani and attended by the leaders of the south Sudan's rebel group John Garang and all members of the leadership's commission and the executive bureau in order to discuss the current political issues and the track of a comprehensive political solution.

The participants in the meeting will discuss activities of committees formed in previous meetings on the constitution and the law for the provisional period and other committees pertinent to organization and the administration as well as results of the visit of the Sudanese opposition coalition delegation to Washington under the leadership of the deputy chairman of the coalition Abdul Raheem Saeed.

The participants will also discuss the government's position towards preventing members of the "internal" coalition from attending meetings of the coalition and the persistence of the minister of the interior in Sudan to his position.

Sources close to the Democratic National Coalition said that the meeting is considered the first in the history of the Sudanese opposition to be fixed.