SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga - Sudan peace talks: Govt accepts possibility of self-determination

13/12/2019: Radio Dabanga - Sudan peace talks: Govt accepts possibility of self-determination

Radio Dabanga report that the transitional government has agreed to form a joint team to study the demands of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (al-Hilu faction) for self-determination and a secular state.

Tut Galwak, head of the South Sudanese mediation team, announced that the two sides agreed to form a separate committee on the matters which are “among the most complex negotiation issues.”

The joint committee will also formulate mutual principles for the negotiations. Ammar Daldoum, chairman of the SPLM-N al-Hilu negotiation team, said that the right to self-determination forms his movement’s “negotiation ceiling”, in case the principle of secularism for the state of South Kordofan is rejected.