Doha: Norway and Sweden will attend Darfur donors conference in Doha starting from Sunday.
Tadjadine Bechir Niam, Minister of Reconstruction, Development and Infrastructure in Darfur Regional Authority (DRA), led a delegation to the Scandinavian countries to brief them on the International Donor Conference for Reconstruction and Development in Darfur (IDCRDD) and invited them to participate.
“We are mobilising all our energies and efforts to ensure a successful meeting in Doha as we believe that this conference will allow the international community to reaffirm to its support to our efforts to make peace a reality in Darfur”, he said.
Meanwhile, Assistant of the President of the Republic of Sudan, Abdul Rahman Al Sadiq Al Mahdi has praised Qatar in supporting Sudan, especially in Darfur issue.
Al Mahdi, during an interview with Qatar News Agency lauded the role being played by Qatari leadership in boosting Darfur peace and the arrangements being made for hosting three-day Donors’ Conference for Rehabilitation and Development.
“Qatar is active in helping resolve regional conflicts. The consistent efforts made by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs H E Ahmad bin Abdullah Al Mahmoud to persuade the non-signatories Armed Movements in Darfur to join the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD) is laudable”, he said.
The Sudanese official said he held in Doha ‘positive talks’ with Qatari senior officials to boost bilateral ties, especially at the economic level.
Talks also dealt with the positive developments of the Darfur peace process in light of the new peace agreement between the Sudanese Government and the Justice and Equality Movement due to be signed in Doha tomorrow, in addition to a number of regional and international issues of mutual concern, he said.
Al Mahdi expressed hope that the upcoming Donors’ Conference will transfer Darfur to a new phase of stability and development.
On the Sudanese President Omar Hasan Al Bashir’s call to all the political forces to engage in a comprehensive national dialogue and his initiative to release all political detainees in the country, Al Mahdi said this will pave the way for a comprehensive dialogue and engage all the political forces to take part in drafting the new constitution. Agencies
