Sudan's Taha holds closed-door meeting with SLM's Menawi

Sudan Tribune article April 17, 2006 says Sudanese Vice-President Ali Osman Taha continued his closed-door meetings with leaders of the rebel movements where he met Sunday Meni Arko Menawi, the chairman of one of the SLM factions. Excerpt:

The State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Al-Samani Al-Wasila, said in a press statement that this is the fifth meeting between Taha and Menawi, pointing out that the focus now is on the security arrangements axis. Al-Wasila added that there are now no outstanding issues in the file of the security arrangements.

The spokesperson of the AU in Abuja talks, Noureddine Mezni, said to SUNA that the AU mediator, Salim Ahmed Salim, left for New York where he is expected to submit on Tuesday a report to the UN Security Council on the latest developments of the Darfur peace talks.