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Re: موقف قيادات من جبال النوبة و الفونج من المفاوضات الجارية (Re: Abdel Aati)
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Nuba and Funj People dissatisfied
With security pact arrangement
By Jacob Idris,
Sudan Monitor correspondent
The security arrangement agreement, signed on 25th September, 2003, between the Sudan people’s Liberation movement (SPLM) and the Government of Sudan (GOS), raised some doubts on the future of the two regions of Nuba Mountains and funj. A committee from these regions, representing political, military and civil leadership, presented a position paper on 19th October, 2003 to a team of SPLM delegation to the Sudan peace talks in Naivasha to echo their dissatisfaction.
The paper explained the concerns of these two regions in the current peace talks and blamed the SPLM for abdicating from the negotiations and peace agreements that have been signed starting from the SPLM Convention in Chukudum 1994, the IGAD Declaration of Principles (DOP) and the Asmara Declarations, which affirmed the right of self-determination to various people of the Sudan.
The paper also reminded the SPLM delegates that negotiation on behalf of the two regions should be based on the resolution reached in the all Nuba Conference at Kauda, in December 2002, and the all Funj Conference in the same month at Dem-Mansour. The resolutions reach in these conferences mandated the SPLM to negotiate on behalf of Nuba Mountains and Funj on condition that their right to self-determination, equal distribution of power and wealth sharing and their right to own land are assured.
The main objective of the meeting was to boost the position of the two regions at the negotiating table. The SPLM team comprised of Cdr. Nial Deng (Head of the SPLM delegation), Cdr. Riak Machar, Cdr. Alija Malok and Cdr. Michael Mayon (of legal affairs). They had an interactive and honest discussion with the representatives of Nuba Mountains and Funj in Naivasha. The Nuba and Funj committee was unhappy with the outcome of the security arrangement, especially paragraph 3 point C, which stated that the excess of 3000 SPLA forces deployed in the joint/ Integrated Units in Nuba Mountains and Southern Blue Nile will be redeployed south of the north/south border of 1/1/1956. The Sudanese community in Nairobi rejected the 1/1/1956 border in 2002.
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