El Wasig El Bereir, Secretary-General of the National Umma Party (NUP) and spokesperson for the Forces for Freedom and Change-Central Council (FFC-CC) said that the signing of the framework agreement with the military will be no later than Monday. However, Adel Khalafallah, the spokesperson for the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party, says that the signing of the framework agreement, originally set for December 3, has been postponed for an indefinite period.
El Wasig El Bereir told Radio Dabanga that the signing has been delayed because of continuing efforts to persuade rebel leaders Minni Minawi, now Governor of the Darfur region, and Jibril Ibrahim, currently Sudan’s Minister of Finance, to sign the framework agreement. “The majority of the political and professional forces of the revolution is ready to sign.”
In order to expedite the agreement in order to form a new civilian government as soon as possible, the negotiators, the AU-IGAD-UN Trilateral Mechanism, proposed to postpone talks on four important and contentious issues; justice and transitional justice, security and military reform, empowerment removal*, and the Juba Peace Agreement have been postponed for the final agreement.
El Bereir said that it is expected that the signing of a final agreement with the junta will take place within three to four weeks, after which the new power structures will be formed.
However, Adel Khalafallah, the spokesperson for the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party, says that the signing of the framework agreement, originally set for December 3, has been postponed for an indefinite period.
He told Radio Dabanga that the FFC-CC has now formed four committees to study the comments on the draft constitutional document developed by the Sudanese Bar Association, the political declaration of intent signed by the military and the civilian opposition, and the framework agreement.
He accused the military of seeking to divide the FFC-CC. “With their comments that have been added to the transitional constitution draft and the framework agreement they intend “to buy time and cause more cracks in the body of the forces of the revolution”.
Khalafallah pointed to “a disturbance in the priorities of some members of the FFC”** and “the widening circle of those rejecting the settlement”. He said that “the balance of power is not in the interest of any political process that could end the military coup and liquidate its effects”. Referring the widening circle of reactions rejecting the settlement.
He affirmed his party’s adherence to its position that a settlement with the military cannot be reached if it does not achieve “the goals of the revolution and the aspirations of the Sudanese people”.
Lawyer Sati El Haj, chair of the Nasserist Social Justice Movement, said that the party categorically rejects the military’s input to the documents of the transitional arrangements.
“The talks should be limited to the civilian forces, including the armed struggle movements,” he told Radio Dabanga. The military must be excluded from the negotiations.
“In addition, any agreement that does not take into account the resistance committees and their political charters will not succeed in crossing the transitional period,” he said and called for “strengthening the resistance committees, rooting them, and relying on them to accomplish the tasks of the transitional period”.
Source: Radio Dabanga