The Sudanese government announced Thursday that it had won the
support of all the other Arab states for its position on the Darfur
issue.
The remarks were made by Sudanese State Minister for Foreign
Affairs Ali Ahmed Karti, who is currently in Cairo to take part in
a foreign ministers meeting of the Arab League, reported the
Sudanese News Agency.
Karti was quoted as saying that there was an Arab unanimous
stance crystallized in the Arab foreign ministers meeting to reject
any foreign intervention in Darfur without consent of the Sudanese
government.
The meeting had taken specific decisions to support Sudan
politically and materially to face the situation in Darfur, he
added.
The Sudanese official said that the Arab foreign ministers
called on the parties which had not signed the Darfur Peace
Agreement (DPA), reached between the Sudanese government and some
rebel factions in the Nigerian capital Abuja on May 5, to join the
peace process.
The Arab countries also promised to provide the necessary
commitments for the African Union (AU) forces to continue their
mission of monitoring a fragile cease-fire in Darfur, said
Karti.
He pointed out that AL Secretary General Amr Moussa was expected
to make important activities in the coming period at regional and
international levels to strengthen the support for the AU forces in
Darfur and urge the Arab countries to fulfill their commitments for
backing these troops in accordance with the resolutions adopted by
the AL summit in Khartoum earlier this year.
(Xinhua News Agency September 8, 2006)
