Special report: Sudan National Reconciliation

    KHARTOUM, April 25 (Xinhua) -- Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir has stressed that the security in the western Sudanese region of Darfur could not be realized by the proposed United Nations peacekeeping forces, the official SUNA news agency reported on Wednesday.

    President al-Bashir made the remarks as the United States was pushing for a UN Security Council resolution which calls for deployment of a large UN force in Darfur ignoring a recent agreement by Khartoum on the UN heavy support package for the African Union troops in Darfur.

    "The security of the citizens can not be realized by the international forces nor the African forces, but by the peaceful coexistence of the Darfurians, " al-Bashir said at the closing session of the first meeting of the newly-formed Transitional Darfur Regional Authority (TDRA) on Tuesday evening.

    He called on the TDRA to work for rebuilding confidence between the local citizens in Darfur and governmental institutions and safeguarding the security of the residential areas of the region.

    The TDRA was inaugurated in Khartoum on Monday, marking a significant step of implementing the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA)signed between the government and a rebel faction last year.

    The establishment of the TDRA, composed of senior officials of the Sudanese government and the former rebel faction of Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) as well as governors of the three states in Darfur, was decreed by the Sudanese president in August last year in accordance with the DPA.

    After its inauguration, al-Bashir noted that the next plan of the TDRA should be the security arrangements.

    "We must work for realizing the security no matter what it will cost," the Sudanese president said, stressing the necessity to vacate the refugee camps to prevent the displaced people from dependence on the suspectable organizations.

    Al-Bashir fiercely attacked some international relief organizations working in Darfur, terming them as "non-humanitarian".

    "These organizations utilized the sufferings of the Darfurians to achieve their own interests," he said, adding that the assistances extended by the organizations were less than 10 percent of the helps received by the Darfurians.

    Mini Arkou Minawi, the senior assistant of the Sudanese president and chairman of the TDRA, reiterated that the authority would work to implement all the DPA items though there are a lot of challenges facing the TDRA.

    Minawi, who is the head of the SLM which signed the DPA with the government on May 5 2006, is scheduled to leave Khartoum on Wednesday heading for Darfur to performance his duties there.