Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok called on head of the Sudan Liberation Movement, Abdelwahid Nur, and head of a wing of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), Abdelaziz al-Hilu, to join the peace efforts in the country.
The government and Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF), an alliance of armed groups from the western region of Darfur and the southern states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile, initialed a peace agreement on Monday.
However, Hilu and Nour said the pact was “incomplete and will not achieve comprehensive peace.”
They demanded that the state be stipulated as secular before signing any agreement and refused to join the negotiations in Juba.
Upon his return from Juba, Hamdok said his government is “keen to meet with them in the near future to reach comprehensive peace to serve the interests of the Sudanese people.”
“Peace remains our people’s dream, and what has been accomplished is only the first phase of peace but is certainly a great historical achievement that sets us in the right direction.”
The premier hailed the role played by South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit, the mediation team and the people.
The deal “creates a new Sudanese state, and remedies all injustices of the past,” Hamdok stressed.
