9 February 2008
Lagos — Sudan's Director of the National Security and Intelligence Service, General Salah Abdallah has lauded the efforts being exerted by Sudan in co-operation with the Libyan Jamahiriyah to settle the current situations in Chad.
In a briefing to leaders of the media institutions and editors-in-chief of newspapers at the National Defence Ministry, Abdallah said keenness of Sudan on the security and stability in Chad based on the relations between the two peoples, explaining that Sudan has extended all of what is possible to help the Chadian government.
He said the relation between Presidents Al-Bashir and Deby was strong and personal and based on confidence and continued as good till the appearance of Darfur problem, where Deby played a role in its solution. He went on to say that as a result of this confidence, President Al-Bashir entrusted Deby with the file of mediation to be the sole mediator in the issue and thus the relation continued and Sudan maintained cooperation with Chad against any dangers facing the Chadian government.
He referred to staging of all the Sudanese opposition from Chad and supplying it with weapons and ammunitions without approval of President Deby, pointing to the intensification of tribal pressures and plots against the regime of Deby besides the entry of the armed Sudanese opposition into the Deby's government. He added that the Justice and Equality Movement contributed to increase of suspicions about Sudan support to the movements opposing Deby, affirming that these circumstances did not change Sudan's policy towards Chad. He reviewed Sudan's efforts in mediation between the Chadian parties with the participation of Libya, which were culminated by the Tripoli Agreement between the government and opposition, pointing to non implementation of the Chadian government to the agreement.
He denied Sudan involvement in the recent incidents in Chad, pointing out that the Chadian opposition moved from all parts of Chad and gathered in the centre before attacking N'djamena. Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Izz-Eddin reviewed the bilateral agreements signed between the two countries and Sudan's participation in the reconciliations in Chad since 1992, referring to the signing of a border security agreement in 1996, joint border military force and then a joint ministerial committee in which security and cultural protocols were signed besides agreement on formation of border administrative and security posts and deployment of joint troops on the border.
He pointed out that the causes of the difficulties that faced these agreements were attributed to the Chadian side, which continued to refrain from sending the troops representing it in the joint forces.
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