Peace talks between the Sudanese government and Darfur rebels to resume on Oct. 27 in Libya, announced here Thursday by visiting UN Secretary General Ban Ki- moon and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.
A joint communique issued by Ban Ki-moon and al-Bashir after their talks in Khartoum stressed the importance of reaching a political solution to the conflict erupted in the western Sudanese region in February 2003.
Although the date and place of the next negotiations have been defined, it is still unknown whether all the rebel groups in Darfur will agree on their participation.
The UN and the African Union had promised in July that the UN secretary general and Alfa Omar Konare, the AU commissioner, would send by the end of August invitations to the parties concerned to attend the next round of the Darfur peace negotiations.
The deadline was missed because of differences among the Darfur rebels, whose factions have increased to more than a dozen from three during the past year.
Some of the Darfur rebel groups agreed to resume the peace talks within two to three months during their meeting in Arusha, Tanzania, in last month, while some others boycotted the Arusha meeting and have not announced their positions on the next negotiations.
Source: Xinhua
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