Bashir insists to implementation of Islamic Sharia: No negotiations over the three areas

The Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir announced that his government will not negotiate with the rebels over the three disputed areas, situated between the north and the south, and will not accept to halt the implementation of the Islamic Sharia in the north. A matter which will raise a major obstacle before reaching a peace agreement in the continued negotiations in Kenya.

Representatives in the talks which are mediated by IGAD said they are discussing areas under conflict. However, Bashir said on Tuesday that the talks which are taking place in Nivasha, in Kenya, do not have the authority of settle the situation of the three disputed areas.

The Sudanese news agency quoted Bashir as saying that there is no authorization to solve this question in the current talks. He added that there remains still one question in the peace talks concerning southern Sudan, which is the participation part in the authority.

Um Durman official radio quoted al-Bashir as saying " the government delegation gets instructions to commit to three main lines: not to give up the Sharia, not to dismember northern Sudan and the enhance the unity of the country." He added that we will never give up the border adopted on the first of January 1956" ( the date of Sudan's Independent Day.) N.