Prospects for peace talks between the SPLM-N and Khartoum government are still unclear after the rebels proposed the AU resolution as basis for the negotiations and the Government wanted to use the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
Heiban SPLM-N Chairman Younan Al-Barut Ajour said Sudanese First Vice President Ali Osman Taha invited the SPLM-N chairperson for talks based on the Naivasha agreements but the rebels refused.He added that the talks should be based on the agreement signed in Addis Ababa in June 2011 by the two parts.
Mr Al-Barut blamed Khartoum over the failure of 2011peace talks and the crisis that ultimately brought instability in the region.
He said the CPA protocols on Blue Nile and South Kordofan were too weak to serve as starting points for negotiations.
Mr Al-Barut said president Bashir’s call to release all political prisoners was not genuine but a campaign to stay in power.
He added that security people are arresting people every day.
A group of women 32 female prisoners from Southern Kordofan accused of spying for the SPLM-N, in detention in El-Obeid, threatened to go on a hunger strike if they were not freed like other political prisoners.