Addis Ababa,August 13( Darfur24)
The Sudan Liberation Movement, led by Abdel Wahid Mohamed Nour, also known as SLM’s al-Nur revealed the reasons for its withdrawal from the consultations organized by the African Union for Sudanese political forces, as part of the initiatives to stop the war in Sudan.
It said in a statement that it had received an invitation from the African Union and IGAD to participate in the preparatory consultations for the Sudanese political dialogue, which aims to stop and end the war and achieve a civil democratic transition.
It confirmed its response and participation in the political consultations, as all invited parties entered into constructive and transparent meetings after the opening session, characterized by seriousness and a sense of responsibility, which resulted in the formation of a technical committee to design a draft of the political process document.
The statement added that “the movement reviewed the draft of the political process document, and raised its observations on it, and we were about to issue a joint statement, but a disagreement occurred on three basic issues.”
The movement’s spokesman said that the first controversial issue is the unity of negotiating platforms; In terms of the movement’s position rejecting any negotiation that produces a quota between the military and civilians, because it reproduces the crisis .
He explained that the movement believes that the consultations and deliberations are not binding on the Sudanese people and other forces that did not participate in them, and they have the right to accept, amend or reject them in the Sudanese-Sudanese dialogue that will address the roots of the historical crisis, establish a real peace and a complete democratic civil transformation, and form a fully civilian transitional government of independent figures and not a government of quotas, according to the statement.
He stressed that as a result, the movement did not agree on the final draft of the joint declaration that was issued at the end of the consultations.