Sudanese Ummah Party calls for joining three Gulf states to IGAD initiative

The opposition Sudanese Ummah Party in Cairo concluded yesterday its sixth intellectual workshop regarding a comprehensive political solution as a means to achieve the hopes and goals of the Sudanese people.

The workshop was attended by head of the party, El-Sadeq El-Mahdi, and some of the party's leaders and members in Egypt and abroad.

The workshop made a primary work paper that specifies the negotiating stance for the Democratic National Alliance, which comprises the Sudanese opposition factions, in the coming period and expressed its confidence in the joint Libyan - Egyptian peace initiative.

The workshop urged coordination between the two Sudanese peace initiatives and renewed a mechanism for this coordination through giving the Libyan- Egyptian initiative to the IGAD (the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development) states and their partners for a supervision role and through giving the IGAD initiative to Egypt and Libya for a supervision role.

The workshop also recommended expanding IGAD's partners to include countries like Saudi Arabia, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, Nigeria, Kuwait and Zimbabwe.