Hi Tumbleweed-
I'm not interested in the "beachfront AZ property" -thanx anyway!
By the way months ago - maybe years ago - John McLeod, then Arakis CEO
said the pipe could be laid in 12mos. From your experience, tell me about 2 miles of pipe in the ground per day -talk to me! Pleese! TIA
Lucki
Egypt to launch peace initiative for Sudan: report
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News Article by AFP on March 02, 1998 at 18:13:15:
Egypt to launch peace initiative for Sudan: report
CAIRO, March 2 (AFP) - Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Mussa has said his
country would soon launch an initiative on reaching a comprehensive
solution to the crisis in Sudan, the MENA news agency reported Monday.
"Consultations will take place (between Egypt and the parties concerned
by the situation in Sudan) in the next few weeks to elaborate a general
strategy aimed at avoiding partition of the country and resolving its
problems," Mussa said.
Mussa made the remarks during a meeting of parliament's foreign affairs
committee which lasted late into the night Sunday, MENA said.
An Egyptian diplomat, who declined to be named, told AFP Egypt would
"take action over the next few weeks to set up the basis for a global
solution of all of Sudan's problems, from the civil war raging in the
south to the conflict between the government and the northern
opposition."
"There will be contacts undertaken with all the concerned parties, the
Sudanese government, the northern opposition and the southern
guerrillas," the diplomat said. The diplomat said it would be "positive"
if a solution were to be found within the framework of the
Inter-Government Authority for Development (IGAD) which groups seven
eastern African countries.
IGAD -- Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and Uganda --
sponsors peace negotiations between the Sudanese government and the
Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) of John Garang.
Former Sudanese Prime Minister Sadeq al-Mahdi, who heads the opposition
Umma Party, in January called for Egypt's inclusion in the IGAD and for
the participation of the northern opposition in the IGAD-sponsored peace
talks.
The Umma spokesman in Cairo, Salah Galal, told AFP there was a
possibility of reaching a "compromise" between the Khartoum government
and the opposition and spoke of good ties between Umma and Cairo.
But the spokesman of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) which groups
the northern opposition and south Sudan rebels, said Egypt should not
seek a reconciliation.
"We are opposed to Egyptian intervention for reconciliation with the
Islamic regime in Khartoum," Faruq Abu Issa told AFP.
"We support Egyptian efforts aimed at eliminating the theocratic state
in Sudan and to re-establish democracy based on the separation of state
and religion," he said.
SPLA spokesman Yasser Erman said from Asmara that the initiative to
solve Sudan's problems would be discussed at an NDA conference scheduled
for mid-March in the Eritrean capital.
Relations between Cairo and Khartoum have improved over the past few
months following years of tension, which rose after the Islamic-led
government of General Omar al-Beshir took power in 1989.
In November, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met in Cairo for the first
time with Garang. |
