Talks stall in Sudan following killings
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March 14, 2011, Monday
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SOUTHERN Sudan is suspending talks and diplomatic contact with northern Sudan over claims that the northern government is funding militias in the south, a top Southern Sudanese official said yesterday.
The announcement, which follows clashes that have killed hundreds of people recently, could further destabilize what will become the world's newest country in July.
Pagan Amum, the secretary-general of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, yesterday repeated allegations that the northern government is arming local tribes to use as proxy forces.
"The country is in a crisis because the (northern ruling party) has been planning and working to destabilize Southern Sudan," he told reporters in the southern capital of Juba. He offered to -provide documentary evidence on Monday.
Amum said that the northern government wanted "to overthrow the government of Southern Sudan before July and to install a puppet -government" in order to "deny the independence of Southern Sudan.
"They have stepped up their destabilization of Southern Sudan by creating, training, and arming and financing various militia groups in Southern Sudan," he said.
Negotiations over the future of the volatile and contested north-south borderland of Abyei were set to resume today between Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and southern leader Salva Kiir, with former South African president Thabo Mbeki mediating the talks, but Amum said yesterday that these negotiations would not go ahead as planned.
"We have nobody to talk to (in the north)," said Amum.
The announcement, which follows clashes that have killed hundreds of people recently, could further destabilize what will become the world's newest country in July.
Pagan Amum, the secretary-general of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, yesterday repeated allegations that the northern government is arming local tribes to use as proxy forces.
"The country is in a crisis because the (northern ruling party) has been planning and working to destabilize Southern Sudan," he told reporters in the southern capital of Juba. He offered to -provide documentary evidence on Monday.
Amum said that the northern government wanted "to overthrow the government of Southern Sudan before July and to install a puppet -government" in order to "deny the independence of Southern Sudan.
"They have stepped up their destabilization of Southern Sudan by creating, training, and arming and financing various militia groups in Southern Sudan," he said.
Negotiations over the future of the volatile and contested north-south borderland of Abyei were set to resume today between Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and southern leader Salva Kiir, with former South African president Thabo Mbeki mediating the talks, but Amum said yesterday that these negotiations would not go ahead as planned.
"We have nobody to talk to (in the north)," said Amum.
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