Abuja's Darfur negotiations stopped, Khartoum accuses the rebels
Political negotiations between the two delegations of the Sudanese government and the rebels of Darfur stopped on Wednesday just less than one hour after resuming it in Abuja, capital of Nigeria.
The negotiations stumbled after the representatives of the rebel Sudan Liberation Movement persisted not to resume the negotiations before an agreement on the security part, and this obliged the mediators of the African Union to postpone the session.
Despite the stumbling of the negotiations, the delegation of Khartoum promised to discuss an agreement to share the authority demanded by the rebels of the district which is situated to the west of Sudan, in a framework of a plenary dialogue with other groups of the various Sudanese areas.
Sudanese humanitarian affairs minister, Muhammad Youssef, expressed his country's readiness to organize a conference bringing together all sides concerned to discuss the political future on the ground of sharing the authority among areas, and then the African Union to listen separately to representatives of the rebels over the security protocol which aims at ending the rebellion and dismantling the weapons of the Jangaweid militias which stand in support of the government in Darfur.
In this respect, the Sudanese foreign minister Mustafa Othman Ismael held the Sudanese rebel movements responsibility for the stumbling of negotiations in Abuja.
In statements, Ismael said that his government announced readiness during the current negotiations to sign the food and humanitarian protocol in Darfur in compliance and in line with the resolutions adopted by the UN and by the Peace And Security Council of the African Union.
Meanwhile, the spokesman for al-Adel Wal Musawat ( Justice and Equity) movement ( one of the two rebel movements ) accused the Sudanese government of not being serious over the crisis that erupted in the district, while the Sudan Liberation Movement stressed the need of getting authentic obligations over improving the security condition in Darfur before the realization of any progress in the negotiations.