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Rebel leader scorns air-strike ban

    NAIROBI

    SPLA leader John Garang has described the halt to air-strikes announced by the government a “public-relations exercise aimed at improving international relations”. The London-based newspaper ‘Al-Sharq al-Awsat” said that in a telephone interview from the field, Garang rejected national elections scheduled for October, and also dismissed as “illegitimate” an internationally supported conference of southern forces, scheduled to be held in Geneva in mid-May. Garang said there were still battles “raging in the east” which was a government offensive “aimed at aborting peaceful solutions”. He called on all southern and Arab tribes in joint territories between north and south to hold a reconciliation conference.

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