Sudanese Government Negotiating Team back to Khartoum

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Sudanese Government Negotiating Team back to Khartoum

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The negotiating team from the Sudanese government has returned home from Kenya after the suspension of the peace talks with the rebel Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA), said Sudanese Presidential Adviser for Peace Affairs Ghazi Saladdin on Tuesday.

Sudanese President Omar Hassan El-Bashir ordered his negotiating team to halt its mission and return home on Monday evening, one dayafter the SPLA launched a fierce attack and recaptured the southernSudanese town of Turit town.

The SPLA violated several other provisions of the framework peace accord, forcing the government negotiators to file a complaint to Inter-Governmental Authority for Development (IGAD) committee, noted Saladdin, who is also the chief negotiator of the government.

Before returning home, the government negotiators met General Simbo, chief of SPLA negotiating team, for four hours on the latestdevelopments of the Sudanese peace process, Saladdin said.

Simbo tried to justify the SPLA's seizure of Turit, a move that came amidst the rising hopes for peace in Sudan, and convince the government negotiating team to continue the peace talks, but in vain, Saladdin pointed out.

The southern rebel group SPLA captured the key government garrison town of Turit in southern Sudan on Sunday.

Sudan state radio has accused the SPLA of escalating military offensives to expand the area of southern Sudan that would be self-ruled according to the July 20 preliminary agreement.

On July 20, the Sudanese government and the SPLA signed an agreement on the separation of state and religion and the right of self-determination of southern Sudan, two key issues for ending a 19-year-old civil war in Sudan which claimed nearly 2 million lives.

The two sides began a second round of talks in Kenya on Aug. 12 in an effort to reach a final agreement.

Since the outbreak of the civil war in 1983, the SPLA had been fighting for greater autonomy of the mainly Christians and animistsliving in the south.

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