Sudan ruling party rejects U.S. incentives for ceasefire in Blue Nile and South Kordofan states

Sudan ruling party rejects U.S. incentives for ceasefire in Blue Nile and South Kordofan states

Sudan's ruling National Congress Party (NCP) Tuesday dismissed incentives that the United States reportedly said would provide to Sudan if it stopped the ongoing war in South Kordofan and Blue Nile states.

"We are currently occupied with repulsing the rebellion and not concerned with the American incentives. We do not intend to enter into any negotiations with the rebel leaders," Nafie Ali Nafie, NCP Deputy Chairman, told reporters here today.

Media reports earlier stated that the United States was planning to provide a package of incentives to Sudan if it announced an immediate ceasefire in Blue Nile and South Kordofan states, allowed delivery of humanitarian assistance for the war- affected people and returned to the table of negotiations to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in the two areas.

Al-Obaid Ahmed Murawih, spokesman of the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, meanwhile, said that America has kept promising to provide assistance to Sudan year after year without fulfilling those promises.

He said that Sudanese-American relations have remained still without any progress unlike Sudan's relations with European countries which have recently witnessed tangible progress.

He further reiterated that any American claims of providing incentives to Sudan would be associated with the U.S. elections where the U.S. president or the U.S. Congress directs the message to the U.S. voters and not to Sudan.

U.S. envoy to Sudan Princeton Lyman is expected to arrive in Khartoum during the coming two days, to be followed by African mediator Thabo Mbeki, to try to find a political settlement to the conflict in the two areas.

Editor: yan

English.news.cn   2011-10-05 06:09:33 FeedbackPrintRSS
KHARTOUM, Oct. 4 (Xinhua)