President Al-Bashir affirms government commitment to negotiate for reaching peaceful solution for Darfur issue
Khartoum, Nov. 12 (SUNA) - President
of the Republic, Field Marshal Omer Al-Bashir, has affirmed the government
commitment to negotiate to achieve a peaceful solution that will uproot
the conflict in Darfur, within the framework of the united and sovereign
Sudan and in compliance with the supreme national interest. In his address
Wednesday at the Friendship Hall by the end of the Forum of the People
of Sudan on Darfur, President Al-Bashir agreed on increasing the number
of the states in Darfur, indicating that he will conduct consultations
toward formulating a committee to carry out studies in this regard and
to provide the proper recommendations. He directed the states to reconsider
the distribution of localities to boost the realization of peace and social
peace and to guarantee the participation of citizens in the administration
of their areas. President Al-Bashir agreed on the principle of collective
and individual compensations for the affected citizens provided that the
concerned authorities are to provide precise and accurate lists of the
displaced people and refugees. He announced that the state has assigned
40 million Sudanese pounds to be paid as compensations to the affected
people, adding that more funds will be included in the coming general budgets.
He pointed out that the state is committed to provide considerable services
in the education, health, water, agriculture, livestock breeding and other
fields at the home villages and areas of the displaced people and refugees
to support their voluntary repatriation and settlement. President Al-Bashir
said that committees of the Forum of the People of Sudan on Darfur Issue
will be formed to make contacts with the armed movements that did not sign
peace agreements so as to encourage them to take part in the coming peace
negotiations. He added that national delegations will be dispatched to
Darfur states to acquaint with the recommendations of the forum and the
ongoing efforts to realize reconciliation and peace.