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Gold/Mining/Energy : ARAKIS: HIGH RISK OIL PLAY (AKSEF) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LARRY LARSON who wrote (7859)	3/3/1998 1:15:00 AM
From: LARRY LARSON	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9164

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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ Latest News From Sudan At Sudan.Net ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.