SLM request to delay Libya talks by Tag Elkhazin,

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SLM request to delay Libya talks by Tag Elkhazin,
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Oct 6, 2007 - 10:20:30 PM

Dear Essam

This is a politically sensible and mature template in �content� but I am afraid not very much in �process� and structure. SLM needs to ask itself a few questions:

1- Is it viable now? Can it fly? Is it doable? Who will support it?

2- Who will support it among the Movements with political power and fire-power? Does Unity support it? JEM-Khalil? Abdelshafie? Arab Tribes and their Movements and solidarity groups?

3- Can, at least, more than one �SLM� come on board?

4- Why are the Sudanese Opposition Political Parties not copied? A declaration by the major parties supporting the document an pledging boycotting the elections will give steam to the document.

5- One of SLM Nur�s dilemmas is that the original �think tank� of the �United SLM� before Haskanita has spread between your group (partly), Minni and Abul Gasim (Partly) and Abdelshafie (Mostly). Between the 3 of you: Ibrahim Ahmed and you and your group, Abdelshafie and his fire-power and Nur and his grassroots support you can form a formidable alliance that the international community will have to take notice of. Is that doable?

6- Which Darfurian constituency will support a whole-of-Sudan solution and not a Darfur-specific solution-Now? One of JEM�s problems was the whole-of-Sudan vision and they seem to be coming out of it now.

7- Do you have a plan �B� in case this �national vision� does not fly? One that deals only with Darfur? Is self-determination an option? Libya is now working on a regional integration vision for that region (Libya, TChad, Darfur, Niger and liking Niger to Burkina Faso and Mali). Experts are working on that!

8- You are objecting to Salem Salem and co and asking the AU to change them. Fair request. Salem is a jerk. At the same time you do not want to negotiate but rather remove the Government of Sudan, how are you reconciling those positions?

9- So that your readers focus, may be one issue per news release will be more effective.

10- There are issues that are not suited to news releases but to a research paper or a position paper. JEM are great at that. The master are the Sudanese Communist Party. Their templates may be useful to study.

Some observations

1- The AU is not copied

2- Eliasson is not copied

3- Envoys of engaged nations are not copied

4- The SPLM/A is not copied

5- FCO UK are not copied

6- Government of TChad is not copied

7- Government of Libya is not copied

8- The EC/EU are not copied at the proper level.

9- The Government of Canada is not copied

The above and others are really holding the file

10- This is a project. You need a plan of action to go about it.

11- Negotiations can start and finish without ceasefire. It is preferred to have one but not conditional. North and South Korea still do not have a formal cease fire.

12- Your pre-requisites for negotiations are very sensible. If met will you negotiate? If yes, remove the whole-of-Sudan option. Put even the pre-requisites to per-negotiations.

13- You may wish to split the Darfur issues from the whole-of-Sudan issues, although you seem to indicate they are intertwined, but they are separable. The whole of Darfur is separable from Sudan!

Stay well and thanks for keeping me in the loop. I have BBC�d some of your mailing list hoping they will feed you constructive observations. You and Ibrahim know that my angle of intervention is always �Process� Oriented and not politically and content oriented.

Tag Elkhazin, Consultant

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