African Union Decision.. A Copy of IGAD & New Naivasha

From time to time, I think it is right that my advice should not be confined to the inner consultations circle the nature of the official position imposes. This happens when I see that the advice issue worth interactions of the public opinion as a matter of the national rights of interests of all citizens. And this happens whenever the country passes a fateful turning point.

In September 1994, I was assigned to lead the delegation of the peace talks in Kenya instead of the former head of the delegation. That was a one-time mission. The task was one and very specific. It was to cancel the initiative of the IGAD declaration that was formulated by the mediators or cancellation of the IGAD initiative itself.
The motivation of that transformation grew from the perception that the IGAD initiative had become a major trap. This organization, whose the translation of its name is (power between the governments for development), and which had no a single achievement in development at that time, was used a front to interfere in the Sudanese affairs. Uganda, Kenya, Eritrea and Ethiopia, the four countries, which took over the mediation between the Sudanese government and the rebel movement at that time, were in strong animosity with the Sudan. And they were not hoped to do justice to Sudan in any issue of dispute. And this exactly what happened.
The delegation did the mission efficentlty as the meeting took 35 minutes. The mediators, who assumed themselves judges at that time, rejected the amendment of the declarations of principles leading to the death of the IGAD initiative that became after that thorny meeting just like a deserted house.
Therefore, the door opened for a better and more just initiative but the government returned in the 1997 to accept the IGAD initiative that began to move from phase to phase leading to Naivasha. As head of the delegation in that unique mission, I was under a fierce attack by the western media where I was described by worst epithets including, of course, I am extremist person. However, personally, I slept that night undisturbed.
Now, it seems we are in the same turning point that requires vigilance and national consensus. Based on long experience, I am convinced that I can see the fingerprints of the super western powers, which adjusted their names to a softer and more subtle name which is: the international community, in each angle of the African Union decision. I mean by that the decision issued by the AU peace and Security Council on Sudan and South Sudan on the 24th of current month.

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