Taha, Garang proposes the peace agreement to the UN Security Council

The Sudanese vice president, Ali Othman Taha, and the leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, John Garang, on Tuesday presented the southern peace agreement which they had signed a month earlier to members of the UN Security Council in an attempt to get their support.

The two officials seek to get the Security council support to the agreement and dispatching a UN force in order to supervise its implementation as well as to approve economic aid the Council had vowed to give to Sudan in its session which was held exceptionally in Kenya in December 2004.

The meeting, which will be held in the frame of interventions over Sudan started on Frida, will be attended by senior American Department Of State negotiator over Sudan, Charles Snider, and the roving American ambassador over war crimes, Pierre Richard.

Washington urges members of the UN Security Council to put on trial the Sudanese accused of committing what it described crimes against humanity before a court in Arousha in Tanzania instead of the International Criminal Court which is preferred by the Europeans and opposed by the Bush administration.