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8 أبريل: الولايات المتحدة تجدد دعمها "للمؤتمر الوطني" في إقامة الإنتخابات قي موعدها
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US wants Sudan elections to go on as scheduled
Associated Press
2010-04-08 04:53 AM
The United States says it respects the decision by Southern Sudan's main political party to boycott local polls in the country's north but still wants Sudan's first multiparty elections in a quarter-century to begin next week. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Wednesday that opposition parties "have legitimate grievances" but the April 11 elections are a crucial step in a 2005 north-south peace deal that ended a 21-year civil war.
The Sudanese People's Liberation Movement said it was withdrawing from northern states for Sunday's vote because of alleged government media control and biased legislation.
The elections pave the way for a referendum to allow southerners, mostly non-Muslims, to decide whether to secede from the Muslim-dominated north.
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