Darfur 24-Juba
The Sudanese government and the SPLM-N led by Al-Hilu signed, on Sunday, in Juba, capital of southern Sudan, an agreement on declaration of principles, paving way for resumption suspended talks.
Head of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, confirmed after the declaration that this agreement would lead to the creation of Sudan for all, and that the signing of the principles with Abdulaziz Al-Hilu was a real beginning of the transitional period.
While leafer of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement SPLM North, Abdel Aziz Al-Hilu said that he appreciates the position of the President of the Sovereignty Council on signing the peace agreement and his keenness on it, stressing that the declaration of principles that was signed provides religious and ethnic freedoms and preserves human rights in Sudan.
Text of the Declaration of Principles
Declaration of principles between the government of the transitional period of the Republic of the Sudan and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement – North
Preamble: We are the delegations of both the Transitional Government of the Republic of Sudan and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement North, bearing in mind all the previous talks that took place between us.
A sense of the long and continuous suffering of the citizens in war zones.
And believing that the glorious December revolution was effaced by the blood and sacrifices of young women and men of Sudan, and the revolutions of the armed struggle movements, have created a historic opportunity to address the roots of the Sudanese crisis and build a state of citizenship that accommodates everyone,
Emphasizing the importance of reaching a comprehensive peace agreement through negotiation in order to put a logical end to the war in Sudan.
The two parties agreed on the following principles as a framework for resolving the conflict in Sudan:
1- The two parties agreed to work together to achieve the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Sudan.
2- Any comprehensive solution to the Sudanese problem requires all parties to recognize and affirm the following
(A) The history and nature of the conflict in Sudan confirm that a military solution does not lead to lasting peace and stability
(B) Reaching a political, peaceful and just solution must be a common goal of the two parties to the negotiation.
2- Sudan is a multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multicultural country. Therefore, this diversity must be recognized and managed, and the issue of national identity must be addressed. Whereas we affirm the right of the people of Sudan in the various regions to manage their affairs through decentralized or federal government.
070 Establishing a civil, democratic, federal state in Sudan that guarantees freedom of religion and freedom of religious practices and worship for all Sudanese people by separating cultural, ethnic, religious and regional identities from the state and that the state does not impose a religion on anyone nor adopt an official religion and the state is impartial with regard to religious affairs and matters of belief and conscience The state also guarantees and protects freedom of religion and religious practices, provided that these principles are guaranteed in the constitution.
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2 – 4 Personal status laws must be based on religion, custom and beliefs in a way that does not conflict with basic rights.
2-5 Achieving justice in the distribution of power and wealth among all the peoples and regions of Sudan to eliminate the developmental, cultural and religious marginalization, bearing in mind the specificity of conflict areas.
2-6 The inclusion of human rights and the rights of women and children contained in international treaties (which Sudan has ratified) in the Peace Agreement.
209 Emphasize that the government of Sudan has taken the necessary measures to acc