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The European Union (EU) on Friday called for the Government of Sudan and the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) to immediately stop hostilities in order to create a conducive atmosphere for negotiations to end the 18-year civil war. It also encouraged Kenya, in its capacity as chair of the Inter-Governmental Authority for Development (IGAD) committee for Sudan, to press ahead with its fellow IGAD members to reinvigorate the peace process, which has not made much progress so far.
In a press statement that reflected on the IGAD peace talks in Nairobi on 2 June, which were attended by both President Umar Hasan al-Bashir and SPLM/A leader John Garang, the EU called on both parties “to engage themselves in a continuous and sustained negotiation towards a just and lasting political settlement.” In this regard, the EU considered it “essential” that “a comprehensive ceasefire effectively monitored by observers accepted by both sides be promoted as a matter or urgency” within the IGAD process.
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