The Sudan national dialogue committee and the opposition parties under the Paris Declaration have signed an agreement for an inclusive national dialogue and constitutional process.

The leader of the Sudan Revolutionary Front, Malik Agar, and the leader of the Umma Party Saiq Almahdi, signed on behalf of the Paris Declaration group.

Mr Ahmed Sahad Omer and Dr Gazi Salahudin signed on behalf of the Sudan National Dialogue Committee.

The agreement was signed in Addis Ababa under the auspices of the African Union High Level Implementation Panel for Sudan and South Sudan.

The eight-point agreement provides for stopping the war, ensuring freedom of expression, respect of human rights, release of political detainees, and the inclusivity of the national dialogue.

The chairman of the AU panel, Thabo Mbek, says the mediation will engage the government and the opposition forces to stop the war.

“We must act consistent with this agreement, act then to make sure that what needs to happen happens,” Mbeki said.
“We will also then engage in processes for engagement with the Sudanese government to achieve this objective of stopping the war and so on.”

The chairman of the SRF, Malik Agar, said the agreement is a “correct step” in resolving the Sudanese problems.
He called on all the stakeholders in the Sudan to be involved in the peace process.

“I think this is the correct step, that here we are talking about the inclusivity of resolving the problem of Sudan and that is the only way, not because we want it, but it is the only game in Sudan that will resolve the Sudanese problem,” Malik said after the signing.

“To start with that one, we need everybody, all the stake players in the Sudan to be involved in the peace process in the Sudan,” he said.

“We believe that any dialogue or any accord that is signed in Sudan that does not stop the war, then it is not worth signing.”

The Sudanese government and the armed opposition forces are still fighting in Blue Nile, Southern Kordofan and the Darfur region.