Thank you very much.
For the first question with regard to the Sudanese people trying to intimidate or win over the southerners in the north, I would like to state something very important. The peace agreement was made by the regime in Sudan, not by the Sudanese people. The Sudanese people were not part of it at all. The Sudanese people today also are living in a situation of ambiguity. They don't have a role. They don't have a say at all, because there is not any freedom of speech or anything for the Sudanese people. The major political parties, which of course have most of the people of the Sudan, were not part of the negotiations or the signing or the implementation of the CPA.
Unless the government ignites problems with the southerners in the north, generally speaking the Sudanese in the north are not going to hamper the process if there is a referendum in the north. I doubt very much indeed that there will be a referendum in the north, in Khartoum and other places, because most of the southerners in the north are in Khartoum. What I understand is that the movement the gentleman talked about was actually by the government of southern Sudan, who wanted to bring these people to the south in order to increase the voting rate and to reach 60% of the registered people.
But with regard to the Sudanese in the north, generally speaking, I don't think they are part of the whole mechanism of obstructing the referendum, because they are out of the picture of this thing.
I hope this is a sufficient answer to this question.
On the other question regarding the southerners in the north, I think people have to know that of the half million or one million southerners in the north, probably 70% of them have no idea about the south. Quite a number of the people aged 40 to 50 years in the north were born there. They have no relation with the south. Culturally even, and linguistically, they actually became Arabic in one way or another, although they have a different religion. So my point of view is that these people have been pushed by the government of the south to go back, although there are fears that the government in the north probably might intimidate them, in case there is a referendum in the north, not to vote for a decision or something like that.
From my point of view, as I lived with these people and know them, quite a number of them have no relation with the south. If you ask them where they would vote in the south, they have no mother, no father, no house, or no place to go to there. That's why the gentleman probably said they might be on the border, because they have no land.
That's my brief answer to the question. I don't know whether it's clear or not.