Sudan gov't rejects new U.S incentives package

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Sudan gov't rejects new U.S incentives package

09:35, September 16, 2010      

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The Sudanese government on Wednesday rejected a package of new incentives announced by the United States to ensure organization of the referendum on self- determination for southern Sudan, slated for January 2011.

"We have expressed our stance towards such offers earlier. We reject in principle the issue of incentives and pressures. This is an unacceptable matter," Sudanese Presidential Adviser Ghazi Salahuddin told reporters Wednesday.

"If there is a constructive plan from the U.S. to develop the relations between the two countries and actively contribute to the resolution of the Darfur issue, we will look into such a constructive plan, but to present matters as reasons or approaches to impose sanctions or give incentives, then this method is unacceptable", he noted.

"We are not to receive benefactions from anybody. We must take what is ours and others must take what is theirs", he added.

On Tuesday, the United States announced a package of new incentives to urge the Sudanese government to conduct the south Sudan referendum.

The U.S. incentives included full normalization of relations, lessening Sudan's debts, lifting the sanctions imposed on it and removing its name from the U.S. list of so-called countries harboring terrorism, where Washington associated these incentives with ending violence in Darfur and conducting the referendum, according to local media reports.

The southern Sudanese are expected to vote for unity with north Sudan or separation in the forthcoming referendum, but a number of increasing bending issues cast doubts on possibility of conducting the referendum.

The referendum is stipulated by the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), inked between the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) and the National Congress Party (NCP) in 2005, which ended the longest civil war in Africa.

According to the CPA, the south Sudan referendum is to be coincided with another referendum on the oil-rich Abyei area where citizens of Abyei would decide whether to remain part of the north or join the south. The SPLM and the NCP, however, have not yet agreed on members of Abyei referendum commission.

Source: Xinhua
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