NAIROBI (April 3) XINHUA - Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi Monday expressed his hope that peace negotiations aimed at ending the 17-year-old civil war in Sudan would go ahead and reach an acceptable conclusion.
Moi made the remarks when he had lengthy discussions with Sudanese President Hassan El Bashir in Cairo, Egypt, where they are attending the Afro-European Summit which opened Monday afternoon, the Presidential Press Service said here on Monday.
During the discussions, Bashir said that his country has faith in President Moi's leadership of the Inter-governmental Authority on Development (Igad) peace initiative for southern Sudan.
Both presidents agreed that other parallel initiative or forms of external interference in the peace process for southern Sudan would not be helpful and should be discouraged.
Moi said that he hoped that discussions regarding the question of state and religion and secular government in Sudan would be solved positively during this round of talks.
Earlier reports said that the Sudanese government and southern rebels would resume talks on Monday in Kenya's capital Nairobi after several rounds of fruitless peace talks under the auspices of Igad.