Al-Bashir, Ghaddafi agree on pushing forward Doha dialogue to solve Darfur problem.
Posted on 30. Mar, 2009 by Admin in Libya News
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and Libyan leader Muammar Ghaddafi held talks in the Libyan coastal city Sirte on Thursday and agreed to push forward the Doha-mediated dialogue to solve Darfur problem, the Libyan JANA news agency reported. The two leaders reached the agreement in a joint communique issued at the end of al-Bashir's one-day browse to Libya, his third trip abroad in a week since the all-embracing Criminal Court (ICC)issued an arrest warrant against him. According to the communique, the two sides agreed on promoting the Doha dialogue betwixt the Sudanese government and rebel factions in Darfur to solve the problem in the western Sudanese region with social means. as the talks, al-Bashir informed Ghaddafi on the latest developments in Darfur and efforts to realize comprehensive and permanent peace in the restive western Sudanese region. He renewed Sudan's appreciation of the supportive stands by Libya for its continued efforts to back Sudan's peace, stability and unity. Ghaddafi has urged the ICC to stop proceedings against al-Bashir, epigram that foreign forces including Israel were stoking the Darfur conflict. Africa can solve its own questions past outside meddling and has made a figure of attempts to broker peace halfway Darfur rebels and the Khartoum government, stressed the veteran Libyan leader. Under the mediation of Qatar, the representatives of Sudanese government and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) started on Feb. 10 their first round of peace talks since 2007, reaching a framework agreement to end the six-year conflict in Darfur. Other rebel partys in Darfur boycotted the week-expanded Doha talks, claiming that the talks would be helpful for the Sudanese government to confront steps to be taken by the foreign Criminal Court (ICC) against the Sudanese president. Qatari Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Ahmed Abdullah al-Mahmoud on March 10 said the subsequent round of talks on Darfur peace is expected to start within the next three weeks in Doha. Al-Bashir, headed a delegation comprising ministers of foreign affairs, industry, and the political branch of the Presidency of Sudan, disembarked in Sirte earlier in the day and was greeted in the airport by the secretary of General community's Committee and other Libyan officials. The Sudanese president had visited Eritrea and Egypt earlier that week. On March 4, The Hague-based ICC issued an arrest warrant against al-Bashir for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sudan's restive western region of Darfur separating 2003 and 2008.{news.xinhuanet} Libya