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SUDAN GETS 7 POINTS INITIATIVE FOR PEACE IN DAFUR FROM BRITAIN February 5, 2006
Apunyu Bonny
(SomaliNet) In a bid to bring peace to the war torn Dafur region, Britain presented to Sudan a plan called "seven steps for establishing peace in Sudan" -Sudan Tribune
Secretary Jack Straw, the British Foreign Secretary gave this plan to his Sudanese counterpart Lom Akol, who met on Saturday in London.
Some of the points in the British proposal include the Sudanese government’s compliance with the clauses of the peace agreement and others are the disarmament of the Janjawid forces, the building of personal relations with the rebels’ leaders, and the willingness to deploy UN forces in the country without the Sudanese government imposing any conditions on them.
Sudan’s Akol and Britain’s Straw discussed the possibility of sending international forces to Sudan but did not divulge the outcome of the talks. Akol said his country was waiting for the African Union’s decision about the possibility of referring the matter to the United Nations and added: "The Union has not made a decision and our government is waiting for the issue to be set in motion."
Asked whether his country prefers the dispatch of international peacekeeping forces, he answered: "We do not want to cross the bridge before we come to it."