U.S. / Sudan Engagement Humanitarian Intervention and Political Transformation

10:57 PM July, 02 2016

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U.S. / Sudan Engagement
Humanitarian Intervention and Political Transformation


The media of the Sudan regime is waging an intensive political propaganda campaign about the engagement between the U.S. Administration and the Sudan regime, saying that it will eventually lead to lifting the sanctions on the Sudan regime, it will be at the expense of the Sudanese opposition, and it came as a result of the U.S.’s ongoing wrong policy on Sudan including the secession of South Sudan! We have been approached by many in the media soliciting our views. Leaving the government propaganda behind us, the SPLM-N would like to say the following:

1) We have been informed officially by the U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan and South Sudan, as a member of the Sudan Call, about the recent engagement two weeks ago.

2) We welcome the engagement between the U.S. Administration and the Sudan regime.

3) We are looking forward for this engagement to impact positively on the humanitarian intervention and the political democratic transformation in Sudan as a key point to address the rest of the issues between Sudan and the outside world including terrorism and immigration.

4) The Sudan government will not transform its outside relations unless it transforms relations with its own people. It is to be noted seriously that terrorism, war crimes, and forced migration have all been practiced on the Sudanese people and exported to the rest of the world.

5) The U.S. Administration has engaged the Sudan regime for 27 years, but the Sudan regime’s practice is to buy time and to ignore the agenda of transformation and ending wars. This also needs to be taken into consideration.

6) We see an opportunity in this engagement to expedite urgent humanitarian intervention and civilian protection in accordance with international humanitarian law in the Nuba Mountains, Blue Nile and Darfur as a matter of priority.

The Roadmap

There is now a favourable environment to reach an understanding between the Sudan Call and the AUHIP on The Roadmap that will address the concerns of the Sudan Call and get The Roadmap signed. This requires frank and in depth discussions between the Sudan Call and the AUHIP into which the SPLM-N, as a member of the Sudan Call, will play its constructive role. The engagement between the U.S. and the Sudan government can enhance this process.

The Humanitarian Situation

Meanwhile as we are working to unlock the political process, the SPLM-N’s conviction has always been to address the humanitarian situation as a matter of priority that will impact positively the political process. The humanitarian situation should not be subjected to the political agenda in accordance with international humanitarian law. Political agenda, by its nature, may take a long time; therefore, the SPLM-N is ready with or without The Roadmap to sit immediately with the Sudan government to reach a humanitarian plan in the Two Areas and a cessation of hostilities up to one year subject for renewal. We are equally ready to agree on unfiltered and unrestricted humanitarian access with multiple points, cross line and cross border, and for the cessation of hostilities to be holistic and to include Darfur on the other peace track.

General Bashir’s Ceasefire

General Bashir measured his unilateral ceasefire to be for four months, which is exactly the rainy season where his Janjaweed militia and army are unable to carry out military attacks. He ignored the cessation of hostilities declared earlier for six months by the SRF. Nevertheless, after the failure of his dry season offensive in the Two Areas for 2016, the SPLM-N is ready to sit immediately to operationalize the cessation of hostilities and to create the necessary joint mechanism for it. The engagement between the U.S. and Sudan can add value to this process.

National Dialogue

The National Dialogue would not achieve its desired end result by co-opting the Sudan Call and the opposition into the 7+7 National Dialogue. It can only be fruitful by developing the current 7+7 National Dialogue into a new phase that will ensure its credibility and move it into a new nation building process.

Terrorism

The NCP regime is a partner of the gang of terrorists and that is why they are able to provide information. Only a partner can give information about his partners, and it has become a business for them, building terrorism networks on one hand and volunteering some of the information to the international community on the other hand. What is required is to end the Khartoum partnerships in conducting terrorism that can only be achieved by transforming Sudan.

Immigration

In the last 27 years under the rule of Bashir, Sudan continued to be a source of immigrants. The Sudan regime displaced internally and externally around 8 million Sudanese and many of them are potential immigrants. Sudan is a country that uses its air force to attack its civilian population and forces them to flee their lands in front of the eyes and the ears of the international community. Sudan can effectively be a partner in ending immigration when it ends its wars and has a favourable system for its people to stay within its boundaries. Supporting a dictatorship that conducts wars against its own people will not help to end immigration.

South Sudan

Sudan can only help in supporting the cause of peace in South Sudan by transforming itself and therefore ending its intervention into the region. We believe that the transformation of Sudan will contribute to the stability of the whole region. Sudan will be friendly to its neighbours when it is friendly to itself.

Finally, the NCP regime in Khartoum is looking to renew its license to rule Sudan in the old fashion with the consent of the opposition and in partnership with the international community after its license of the CPA expired. This is not possible. It is only time for partnership on the basis of the change agenda that will end war, provide democratic transformation and usher Sudan into a new nation building project on an equal citizenship basis.


Yasir Arman
Secretary General, SPLM-N
1 July 2016





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