Friday, November 05, 2010

SPLM Leader Says Secession Calls Are Hostile Acts Toward the Sudanese State

Secession Calls a Hostile Act, International Conspiracy, Backed by UN, ICC: SPLM Leading Figure

Khartoum
Sudan Vision Daily

The SPLM leading figure, Ghazi Suleiman criticized the call for the secession of the south in the next referendum.

Addressing the National Forum organized by the SMC on the separation and dual citizenship, Suleiman said that the SPLM did not call for separation pointing out that the call for separation is a hostile action against Sudan indicating that foreign bodies stand behind the secession of the south. He described the call for secession as a conspiracy against Sudan and that the United Nations and the International Criminal Court are arms of that conspiracy.

Lieutenant General (Police) Al-Tayib Abdul Rahman stressed that the state will seek to conform the conditions of the South in case of separation through a shared vision between the two countries.

He said that the dual citizenship is given to individuals and not to groups and that there are a number of people of Central Africa, Chad and Ethiopia who have dual nationality and live in Sudan. He noted that the Nationality Act allows assigning dual citizenship on certain conditions indicating that there is nothing to prevent giving dual citizenship to southerners.

On his part, the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, Atem Garang said that there are 6 million pastoralists from the north who are in the south calling to pay concern to them in case of separation describing the issue of dual citizenship as a vital one.

He accused the Sudanese press of publishing misleading news calling on them to play a positive role between the parties stressing that separation does not mean the abolition of cultural and economic ties between the two sides.

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