Sudan's main foes say peace deal imminent
Sudan's government and main rebel group are ready to clinch a final deal to end more than 20 years of war within days of talks resuming next week, spokesman for both sides said Wednesday, a day before the UN Security Council opens a rare meeting in Nairobi on the country's peace process.
In a phone conversation Tuesday, Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army leader John Garang "told (US President George W.) Bush it is a matter of days (after talks resume on November 26) before we reach a final peace agreement," rebel spokesman Yasser Arman told AFP, speaking by satellite phone from south Sudan's Equatoria state.
"I do concur. I don't think that we have a kind of problem that we cannot solve in a matter of days or a week," Said al-Khatibu, the spokesman for Khartoum's delegation in the two-year-old peace talks, told AFP in Nairobi.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. On Tuesday, the White House announced that Bush had called both Garang and Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir to urge them to conclude their marathon peace talks.
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