Bashir: Darfur peace nearly ready, to be discussed before signing

President Omar al-Bashir said that the negotiations in Doha are in the last stages on the issue of Darfur. Bashir said the government is now awaiting the final document from the peace mediators. He stressed that immediately upon receipt of the document the government will go to Darfur and put it in the hands of the the Darfur-Darfur Dialogue, a mechanism backed by the African-Union.

The government’s plan to do this had earlier been announced by Ghazi Salah Al Din. The move may be a way of guaging internal opposition to the peace plan within the ruling party.

For his part, the Liberation and Justice Movement of Dr. Tijani Sese described the government’s “so-called strategy of peace from within” as based on military solutions. LJM has accepted the mediation’s plans for peace and said it is ready to sign the deal. The movement’s spokesman Abdullah Mursal told Radio Dabanga that the Doha process had been representative of refugees, displaced persons, and civil society.