LONDON: Sudan's government on Wednesday said that they would not participate in a workshop to be held in Washington in two weeks over peace in Darfur. Sudan's Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs Rahama-Tallah Mohamed Osman told US Senior Advisor on Darfur Dane Smith that the country would not participate in the workshop. In a statement after the meeting, Osman said he told the visiting American diplomat that the situation in Darfur “is moving towards the best and the government has already implemented several points included in the DDPD.” The two sides discussed a workshop that Washington plans to hold October 27-28 to discuss peace in Darfur and its perspectives. According to the organizers the discussions will include the Doha Darfur peace Document (DDPD) and what can be done to strengthen the framework agreement. Khartoum is opposed to any discussion over the framework agreement for peace in Darfur that the government inked with the Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM) in July in Doha. The “government does not want to engage in talks with the rebels at this stage of the implementation of the Doha peace document,” local newspapers in Sudan reported. BM
