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The Sudan APG met with key officials from the Government of Sudan

This debate took place on April 1st 2008 entitled ‘The Situation in Darfur’ after joint work from the Sudan APG and Aegis Trust encouraged a number of members to put in for the ballot. This post includes the full debate transcript. During the debate. the Minister kindly agreed to respond more fully in writing to the points raised in both the APG Sudan brief, and the Aegis brief on Jame Duddridge’s suggestion. This will be somewhere ‘between a letter and a Select Committee Inquiry’ and will be posted here as soon as it is received.

In this report, published to mark the third anniversary of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, we assess the progress of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement with a focus on what needs to be done to create the conditions for free, fair, and meaningful elections. This is a national question and the report looks at North and South Sudan, Darfur and further discusses Eastern Sudan, long a concern of the Group.

Click to download the IPU Review Winter 2008 edition

The following debate was secured following a recent Parliamentary visit to Sudan. The debate took place just after the news broke that the SPLM had suspended its participation in the Government of National Unity, and was a rare opportunity to raise issues pertaining to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. In particular, the issues of Abyei, border demarcation, [...]

Over 100 MPs signed the following letter to Chinese President Hu Jintao. Mark Lancaster MP, Shadow Minister for International Development, and Lynne Featherstone MP, Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for International Development delivered the letter to the Chinese Embassy on October 29th (download the Messages Delivered in the Meeting here). The Embassy expressed concern at the tone [...]

 
A comprehensive report will be published shortly
 

Mark Lancaster MP and David Drew MP with recently returned IDPs in Juba.
 
Members of the APG visited Sudan between August 21st and August 29th 2007. The trip underscored the need for the internataional community to work with Sudan in the long term, to refocus its attention on the Comprehensive [...]

The House Magazine
Policy focus | Issue 1224 | Monday 25th June 2007 | Send this article to a friend | Print this article
Deja vu in Darfur
Efforts to halt the bloodshed in Darfur are being hampered by superpower involvement, says Baroness Tonge
The all-party group on Sudan was set up by Hylton Dawson and me in [...]