 30 countries participating on the Darfur talks in New York have called on the Darfur rebels to take part in the peace talks with the Sudanese government in Tripoli, Libya, next month.
The participants warned that suctions will be imposed on any rebel movement who rejected to participate in the next Darfur peace talks.
In a joint released statement, the UN and the African Union urged all the parties engaged in the Darfur crisis to join the political process and be prepared for the Tripoli talks which will take place later in October.
Miraya FM Gabriel Shadar reported that the Africa Union and the Sudanese government on one part and the United Nations on the other have differed over the composition of the military element of the hybrid operation, after the African Commissioner Alfa Omer Konare rejected infantry troops from Thailand, Uruguay and an engineering unit from Norway.
The Sudanese government maintains that Africa has provided a hundred and ninety percent of the needed troops but the United Nations undersecretary for peacekeeping operations insists that some African troops lack technical equipment and experience.
The political track also faces impediments following the refusal of Abdul Wahid Mohamed Nur now living in France to participate in the Tripoli negotiations, scheduled for the twenty seventh of next month, turning a deaf ear to all international pressure.
The United States Secretary of State John Negroponte has for the first time threatened sanctions on any party that refuses to join the Darfur Peace Talks, France’s foreign minister Bernard Kushner ruled out pressing Abdul Wahid by expelling him from the country.
The result of disagreement over the hybrid forces which the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said is mainly technical and the impediments to the political process is that the deployment of the hybrid troops is pushed to the beginning, and may be after April next year, and have made a successful political process improbable.
This means the situation in Darfur remains as it is, waiting a lacking agreement in Tripoli and until the devil is knocked out the details of the hybrid forces remains unclear.
However, the Sudan Liberation Movement-Abdallah Wahid Mohammed Al-Nur faction reiterated its rejection to participate in the next Darfur peace talks.
Al-Nur said he will take part in the talks only after the deployment of the Hybrid Forces to Darfur.
The spokesman of the movement, Yahya Bolad, said that threats of suctions will not frighten the movement.
"Regarding the issue of suctions, all these have been said in Abuja," said Bolad.
Bolad said that the SLM had earlier said the Abuja agreement will not achieve any stability, security or peace.
"Suctions does not frighten us because our people were already subjected to suctions long time ago...our people are subjected to killing and raping on a daily basis," he asserted to Miraya FM.
He said for the participation of SLM-Abdel Wahid Mohammed Al-Nur in the Tripoli talks "the international forces must be deployed in the Darfur region, then the raping and the bombardment must be stopped, the janjaweed militias must be disarmed, after that we can move to the negotiations stage".
The vice president of the government of south Sudan, Dr. Riak Marchar, has also said that South Africa has declined to host the Darfur peace talks so long there is a venue and mediators.
Dr. Machar has been on an official visit to France where he met governmental officials and discussed the Darfur crisis.
The vice president said he also met with Abdallah Wahid Mohammed Al-Nur.
He said that al-Nur wanted the venue of the peace talks changed and moved to the Republic of South Africa.
Addressing the press in Juba upon his return, Dr. Marchar said, "we have given invitations to all these groups including Abdel Wahid to come to Juba and dialogued among themselves hopefully to agree on a common position, although in Arusha they did," he asserted adding, "but they need to reaffirmed that this is the common negotiating position".
He said all of them have accepted to come, "except Abdel Wahid, but I would want to state, within the group of Abdel Wahid a good number of them want also to join the peace process and also the consultations in Juba".
"So we are hoping that the SPLM task force on Darfur will call them soon to Juba and then they handle the three issues," concluded Dr. Marcahr.
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