By NNN-SUNA
Khartoum : Sudan’s First Vice President and President of the Government of Southern Sudan and Chairman of Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), Salva Kiir Mayardit, has instructed the SPLM forces everywhere to be committed to orders and remain quiet.
According to leading SPLM member Yasir Arman, Salva Kiir considered what had happened between the National Congress and SPLM as a political issue that had nothing to do with any military action.
Military action is considered a thing which has been totally removed from the agenda of the movement since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2005 which ended decades of fighting between the SPLM and the Sudanese government for an independence for the southern part of the country which has the largest land mass in Africa.
Arman said in a press statement after Salva Kiir Mayardit received Minister of National Defense Gen. Abdel-Rahim Mohamed Hussein at his residence on Thursday that they were optimistic that the wisdom of the President and his first deputy would lead to resolving all outstanding issues in the process of the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
Arman expressed pleasure over the meeting and the agreement that resulted from it on activation of all mechanisms, pointing out that the National Congress and SPLM had long experience in resolving issues and that the efforts being exerted by the Presidency could result in good solutions for the interests of Sudan and its people.
Arman affirmed the importance of the meetings between the President of the Republic and his first deputy and the other parties for boosting the peace process in the country.
Meanwhile, Salva Kiir Mayardit said in a statement which he issued after the meeting that there is no any military escalation between the forces of the SPLM and the Sudanese Armed Forces and that all media reports on a military escalation were untrue.
He added that he would like to assure the Sudanese people through the media that there is no problem between the two sides.
Gen. Abdul-Rahim Mohamed Hussein reiterated that the two sides would never again return to war and that the Armed Forces fully adhered to the peace agreement and was keen on implementation of its clauses and solution of all the issues via the mechanisms stipulated by the agreement.
The minister affirmed stability of security situations at the oil-production areas, saying that there was no problem and that the Armed Forces and the SPLM’s forces and the joint forces were performing their roles fully.
He said talks about attack on oil areas were totally untrue and baseless, pointing out that the SPLM did not detain or attack any person there. He described the statements by the Justice and Equality Movement on attacking the oil areas as dreams that will never become true, saying it could not do so.