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Re: الحركة الشعبية ستاخذ المبادرة بإيجاد نقاط التلاحم بين قوى وحركات الهامش والقوى الجديدة (Re: صديق عبد الجبار)
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SPLM calls for new alliance to support South Sudan referendum Sunday 9 May 2010 Send
May 8, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) today called for the formation of a new political alliance to establish the New Sudan and to support southern Sudan right of self-determination.
The leadership of southern Sudan ruling party, SPLM, held recently a series of meetings in Juba to assess the after-elections situation and to define the political line of the party ahead of the referendum on self-determination in southern Sudan schedulled for January 2011.
The SPLM accused its peace partner, National Congress Party (NCP) of deliberately delaying the formation of the referendum commission and warned that the elected parliament in southern parliament may hold it without the participation of the northern Sudan ruling party.
The deputy SPLM Secretary General for northern Sudan, Yasir Arman called Saturday on the "New Sudan and Democratic forces" in northern Sudan to form a broad alliance with his party to establish the New Sudan.
Arman further called upon all the "national forces" to develop Juba understanding and define a common vision connecting between the struggle for democratization, self-determination, popular consultation and a just solution to Darfur conflict as one package for a genuine democratic transition and full implementation of the CPA.
The Juba alliance is comprised of the SPLM and other Northern opposition parties as Umma party, Popular Congress Party, Sudanese Communist Party. The democratic Unionist Party joined weeks before April general elections.
Addressing a message to the ruling National Congress Party, the former SPLM candidate for the Sudanese presidency, urged it to accept a program of national consensus based on the CPA implementation, democratic transition and the resolution of Darfur conflict as solution of the national crisis.
The withdrawal of Yasir Arman from the presidential race followed by the boycott of the elections in northern Sudan generated some divergences within the party and showed also two wings: one focusing on the referendum while the other more combative on the issues of democratic transition and removal of NCP from power.
The multiplication of statements by the SPLM leadership members on the issue of referendum and democratic transition meant to reassure the party’s supporters and allies and mobilize them.
Yasir said that the New Sudan vision remains valid across geographic and ethnic variations in the country, stressing that voluntary unity of Sudan cannot be maintained without it. He also said the SPLM formed a committee to study the future of the party and challenges it may face after the referendum.
DESTABILIZING SOUTHERN SUDAN SECURITY
Speaking about the last month bloody clashes between the southern Sudan army, SPLA and Darfur Arab tribe of Rizeigat on the disputed north-south border, Arman said the parties have to strengthen all the mechanisms provided in the security arrangement like the ceasefire commission, Joint Defense Board, and the deployment of UN peacekeepers. He said these means should be reinvigorated to calm any escalation and prevent return to war.
"The United Nations should verify and should be present in all the places where there are violations of the security arrangements," Arman said. "This is the mandate of the United Nations force here — they should take this mandate... seriously," he added.
The SPLM official also accused Khartoum authorities of working to destabilize the security situation in the south in order to hamper the 2011 referendum.
"We think there is a big game to destabilize the south from within and from without. From within through militias and other connections and from without in the name of certain tribes," Arman said.
He also said that renegade George Athor was receiving logistical support from outside the south, but he did not provide further details.
Athor a former candidate for gubernatorial election in Jonglei state clashed twice since April 30 with SPLA. The southern Sudan army deployed troops in Jonglei to surround his position in the immense state. http://www.sudaneseonline.com/spip.php?article35019
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