KHARTOUM, 27 June 2005 — A Sudanese committee yesterday completed the drafting of a constitution for a six-year interim period provided for in a January peace deal that ended two decades of war between north and south. The document, which was presented to President Omar Bashir, is due to be approved by the Sudanese Parliament and the autonomous government of South Sudan before the beginning of the interim period on July 9.
At a ceremony in Khartoum’s Republican Palace, Bashir hailed the fact that the National Constitutional Revision Commission unanimously agreed on the new basic law. “The passage of the draft constitution unanimously without the need for vote-taking among the NCRC transmits a message to the world that the Sudanese people are tolerant and are capable of putting past grievances behind, however severe they were,” he said.
