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Quote: Southerners suspend work in Khartoum government Thu 11 Oct 2007, 10:12 GMT (Adds details of demands, background on conflict and disputes) By Skye Wheeler JUBA, Sudan, Oct 11 (Reuters) - The main party in southern Sudan has suspended its participation in the national government until its northern partners meet a long list of demands, the secretary general of the party said on Thursday. Pagan Amum of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) told a news conference: "The SPLM has recalled all ministers and presidential advisers from the government of national unity." "Presidential advisers, ministers and state ministers will not report to work until these contentious issues are resolved," he added. He complained that the northerners had failed to carry out many provisions of a 2005 peace agreement. The decision by the SPLM, the political wing of the southern rebel movement which fought the Khartoum government for more than 20 years, is the culmination of months of tension and disagreement between the two main partners in the national government. In September, heavily armed police stormed three SPLM offices in Khartoum, vandalised property, and in one case, broke down a door in raids the SPLM says followed libellous attacks against senior SPLM officials in the national media. The U.S. envoy for Sudan, Andrew Natsios, said last week that relations between the northerner and southerner politicians had deteriorated into a "poisonous" political atmosphere. "We are deeply concerned with the health of the comprehensive peace agreement (between north and south)," Natsios told reporters after a 10-day trip to Sudan. Amum said the contentious issues that needed resolution included "the obstruction of democratic transformation, lack of initiation of a national reconciliation and healing process ... non-completion of SAF (Sudanese army) deployment (and) lack of transparency in oil sector operations." The 2005 peace agreement laid down wealth and power sharing arrangements between the national government and the semi-autonomous government in the south but the two sides have argued over many aspects of implementation. The SPLM says that it has not been able to establish how much it is due from oil revenues and it complains that not all northern troops have evacuated their positions in the south. The southerners have consistently raised doubts about the sincerity of the National Congress Party, the northern party which dominates the national government, saying it has been implementing the peace agreement selectively and has tried to renegotiate some aspects of the text. The most contentious issues include the protocol on the oil-rich Abyei area, demarcation of the north-south border and withdrawal of northern forces from the south. Under the peace agreement, which ended a war in which some 2 million people died, the southerners will have a chance to vote in 2011 on whether they want to remain part of Sudan. © Reuters 2007. All Rights Reserved. | Learn more about Reuters