Thank you. That's an important thing to raise.
First of all, the conclusion in the minds of most Sudanese is that the United States' policy, the international policy of the United States in many places or several places, causes havoc. Working in the United Nations and in the field, I saw that for some policies of the United States, maybe the intention was good, but the application and implementation were wrong. My point is that with regard to the CPA itself, if you read it carefully and fairly, you will find that already the secession was signed on that day in 2005.
Once our brothers in the south signed the CPA, they were already working for secession. Now the national anthem in the south is ready and it has been given voice. Nobody could go to the south and say that the people of the south are working for unity. Even the people in the north know and the government itself knows that. My point of view is that the U.S. was working for secession. That was very clear to me from the manoeuvres, from the CPA, and so on.
Of course, that secession is a right for the people of the south to have. But if it is planned in an international forum in a way that.... If there was some kind of transparency, some kind of national administration for it in one way or another, that might be tolerated. But I think the way the United States has involved itself in this CPA and in the implementation of it, although the government in the north carried out its policy toward implementation very badly indeed....
Here I have to inject something. It was very surprising to me that Canada lost the seat for the chairmanship of the Security Council. That was a disaster, because as a UN staff member throughout, I'm very familiar with the role of Canada. Canada is a country for peace development, peace-building, economic development, and human rights, and there's no reason for Canada to lose that seat now unless there are things that went wrong with regard to this issue.
Therefore, it is too late now, in my view, for playing a role. Let things go, because the south is going to separate. Let things go. Then there will be a role for Canada in the relations between the two states. I think that is a big issue. Something will need to be done.