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‘Darfur Conflict Unlikely to Affect Talks With SPLA’
Agence France Presse, Arab News
ADDIS ABABA, 31 January 2003 — Skirmishes pitting government troops against insurgents in Sudan’s Darfur state will not affect peace talks between Khartoum and the country’s main rebel group in the south, Sudan’s President Omar Bashir said yesterday.
Representatives from the Sudanese government, led by Vice President Ali Osman Taha, and from the southern-based rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army, led by John Garang, are holding talks in Kenya aimed at ending two decades of civil war.
“We are on an encouraging road towards peace, and the recent incidents in Darfur have no impact on the process,” Bashir told reporters before leaving Addis Ababa.
“We are nearing the signing of a peace accord,” he added, referring to the talks between Taha and Garang in the Kenyan town of Naivasha, 80 kilometers, northwest of Nairobi. Press reports in Khartoum yesterday quoted Bashir as saying that he expected that a definitive peace deal with the SPLA could be sealed next week.
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