Egypt on Wednesday called for the reviving of the political process in western Sudanese region Darfur under the auspices of the UN and the African Union (AU), the Egyptian MENA news agency reported.

In the verbal messages put forward by Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit to the United Nations, the AU, the EU and the foreign ministers of the five permanent member states of the UN Security Council, Abul Gheit proposed Egypt's vision on how to settle the Darfur crisis, the report said.

The political process to encourage the inclusion of Abuja peace agreement holdouts to pave the way for the restoration of peace in the troubled region should be revived, according to Gheit.

The Darfur Peace Agreement was signed between the Sudanese government and a main rebel faction in the Nigerian capital of Abuja last May.

On Tuesday night, Mohamed Othman al-Merghani, leader of the Sudanese National Democratic Alliance (NDA), who has been living outside Sudan for the past 17 years, announced that leaders of Sudanese political parties and groups that have not signed the Abuja peace agreement would meet in Cairo this month.

Al-Merghani made the announcement after his talks in Cairo with visiting Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir last night. During the talks, the two leaders discussed the situation in the western Sudanese region of Darfur.

Meanwhile, Al-Merghani called for efforts to reach national reconciliation, noting that more contacts between political leaders in Sudan are expected in the coming few days.

He also urged Arab states in north Africa to dispatch troops following consultations with al-Bashir to join peacekeeping troops in Darfur.

Al-Bashir, who arrived here on Monday on an official visit to Egypt, held talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on ways of supporting stability in Sudan and efforts to solve the problem in Darfur region.

On Tuesday, a tripartite summit of Mubarak, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and Chadian President Idriss Deby was held in Libya capital of Tripoli to discuss comprehensive reconciliation in Sudan, a solution for Darfur and the relations between Sudan and Chad among others.

On May 3, al-Bashir and Deby signed a reconciliation deal in the Saudi Arabia capital of Riyadh to stipulate respects for each other's territorial integrity, not to support opposition forces in the other country.

Source: Xinhua