Agence de Presse Sénégalaise (Dakar)
14 March 2008
Dakar — The peace agreement concluded between Chad and Sudan in Dakar, Thursday night, is "the beginning of the process" to make peace return to this region, President Abdoulaye Wade said in Dakar, Friday, stressing that he was "the instrument of the hand of God."
The accord between the two countries "is for us the beginning of the process (...), the first stage to restore peace" in this African region undermined by instability, he told a news conference held at the end of the 11th Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
"Two days ago," when President Deby arrived in Dakar, "elements of the Chadian opposition crossed the border and went to attack him," President Wade intimated.
Since then, "we have been very concerned by thinking that the rebels" would attack while the Chadian leader was in Dakar, where he participated in the Islamic Ummah meeting, said the head of state.
While hoping that the process, which helped bring Presidents Idriss Deby Itno and Omar El Beshir together, would be continued, he stressed that in Chad, "the problem is to form a national union government. In Sudan, it is the same thing."
Both Sudan and Chad are confronted with armed conflicts in their territories, in addition to armed incursions that they are subjected to from both sides of the common border.
Sudanese President Omar El Beshir and his Chadian counterpart Idriss Deby signed in Dakar, Thursday, a peace deal in order to "end for good" the differences between their countries. Under this accord concluded as a result of talks started in Dakar, in the afternoon, both states agree to "restore peace and security" between Chad and Sudan, but also in the sub-region.
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