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To: Tomas who wrote (1242)	6/13/2001 9:39:05 AM
From: Tomas	Respond to of 1713

Sudanese foreign minister offers to share oil revenues with south CAIRO, Egypt, Jun 13, 2001 (AP) -- Sudan's Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail said Wednesday his government was ready to share oil revenues with the southern rebels if they stopped their armed struggle. "The government offers dividing oil (revenues) between the north and the south to be used for development and peace which will come when the rebel movement halts its military operations," Ismail told reporters after meeting with President Hosni Mubarak. Rebels of the Sudan People's Liberation Army, critics and humanitarian groups say the dlrs 400 million oil revenues have been used by the government to fuel an 18- year-old civil war in the south. The government denies the accusations. The SPLA rebels have recently made major advances in the areas close to oil exploration sites. The group claimed Sunday that its fighters killed 244 soldiers who were protecting oil fields in the southern oil-rich state of Wehda. It also warned oil companies to stop their operations, saying oil sites were legitimate military targets. The SPLA has been fighting since 1983 for increased autonomy for southern Sudan's predominantly animist and Christian people, who feel dominated by the Muslim north. More than 2 million people have died in fighting and war-related famines. President Omar el-Bashir and SPLA leader John Garang failed at a peace summit organized by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development in Nairobi earlier this month to agree on a cease-fire. Garang said then that the fighting would not stop until there was "a cessation of the exploration, development and export of oil."