Comrade Abdullah al-Ahmar has delivered a speech to the Sport and Youth magazine in Sudan. Here is the text of the speech:
Arab-Sudan relations have attained a continuous growth in all the fields during the last years. Thus, the communications and meetings held at top level between the two brothers' countries, at the head, between the Presidents Bashar al-Assad and Omar Hassan al-Bashir, and between the leaderships of the Baath Arab Socialist Party and Sudan National congress organization. As well as, the discussions and agreements performed between the two governments and the meetings of Syria-Sudan supreme commission, all these had positive results and formed a new specific move towards special and firm relations between the two countries, and the vast fields of cooperation between the Syrian and Sudanese peoples. Besides, these relations formed an advanced step towards enhancing solidarity and Arab coordination and creating a powerful united Arab stance able to deal with the recent developments to confirm the nation's steadfastness and stance in facing the dangers and challenges surrounding her, therefore, activate her role in the international human movement.
Sudan occupies a special position in every Arab person's spirit for its culture; history and achievement that increase the richness of the Arab culture, for occupying a special position as a civilized bridge bind the Arab nation with Africa and for its peoples that exposed, as the Arab, to the cruelest kinds of occupation, defeating and injustice.
Sudan with its Arab depth and belonging to the Arab world and black continent deepens the contents of Arab civilization, its humanity, tolerance and openness, and strengthen the historical and current ties among Arab and African countries.
Exactly at this time, Sudan has a remarkable role, comparing to the other Arab countries. This makes him hold responsibility for great regional and national duties that our people undertook throughout the history phases because these are their destiny and choice.
The national dimension and, Islam's human tolerant doctrines are very important to every Arab country in order to understand the consequences of its internal issues. These issues which could not be acquainted with their meanings and solutions unless they put within the national entity order, and discover the organic link between the regional and the national entities, including pluralism that the nation civilized values have perceived and formed with it an integral structure to affirm the nation's force and civilized humanitarian role.
This speech is not a mere echo to the pan-Arab romance, yet, it became a fact assured by the developments and circumstances. Arab and Muslims, as a nation, civilization and culture, are exposed today to the same challenges that have an impact on the human civilization through their exposure to the Arab countries and unity.
Within these circumstances, Sudan is exposed, today; to great foreign pressures drowned him in an endless civil war, and aim at splitting up this country, extorting its energies and resources, and impeding his growth and progress. Furthermore, the consequences of the odd problem in Darfur. In addition, there is a use of various machineries and available tactics used against him, such as prompting a civil war, arbitrary besiege, attacking the vital constructions, the acts of sabotage, and terrorism of various kinds and goals.
Facing all these serious dangers, Sudan has no choice except to organize its people and reinforce the national unity bases depending on a constructive pluralism and democratic dialogue among its forces, organizations, groups and political movements, in order to defend its unity, independence and its own choice to achieve development and growth.

Sudan is rich in its natural resources, human potentials, cultural, and entity of civilization. All know that this richness which is based on pluralism of wealth, races and cultures ' multiplicity.
The unity, which depends on pluralism, is necessary for progress and advancement, this unity is possible in the condition of assertion on the common divisor and hops of all Sudanese with what equalize them in their common life and in distribution wealth equally and activate participation of all Sudanese in the process building of the future.
Sudanese people affirmed their ability to live a common life through their unity that they have maintained throughout historical phases that should to promote and grow it in this period because it is the only way of total growth and active national role.
The rich of Sudanese experience struggle, our experience in Syria and in al-Baath Arab socialist party affirmed the importnce of national unity.
Since the correction movement on 1970, headed by president Haffez al-Assad, has rooted the basis's of national unity because this unity is the essence of any achievement and mean of any victories, and it is the contribution platform in the march of promoting Arab solidarity and putting their countries on the road of unity.
Syria has attained wide steps and achieved social and economic transformations on the road of progressive and advancement, confronting Israel's aggression and enhancing her national regional and human role depending on the national Unity that can assimilate political organizations with all forces of community popular and vocational sectors where all participate in building community
Sudan's experience affirmed as our experience in Syria that the national unity does not establish by force but by sincere openly dialogue and clinging with common divisor and avoiding the private narrow-minded affairs and any thing, which divide one people
Sudan as a Brother country which it has of law and of what has adopted procedures' lately embodies an important step and a begging of enhancing national unity of their people with its all differences races, sects and groups. Moreover, enhancing its role in promoting peace and Arab- African cooperation and participation in the Arab and Muslim march in facing current challenges and building flourished future.
We are in al-Baath Arab Socialist party partake Sudanese crowded in their struggle to maintain Sudan's unity and its dependent to be a strong state forming strong constituent of his Arab nation and a factor of advancement and stability and activate role in the total Arab 's aims towards solidity and unity
We congratulate you of all your achievements and victories, which you have fulfilled on all levels. We consolidate you to overcome all difficulties that confront you .And express our hope of what you have been achieved is an advanced step , followed by next steps to complete a dialogue to reach the final formula gather all commitment forces of people and goals to unified effort's forces to grow Sudan's role up and enhancing it's position in the whole Arab nation.

February,2005