PREAMBLE OF THE NAIROBI DECLARATION ON UNITY BETWEEN THE SPLM/SPLA AND SPDF (5 JANUARY, 2002) The leader of the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement and the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army (SPLM/SPLA), Dr. John Garang de Mabior AND The leader of the Sudan Peoples Democratic Front and Sudan People’s Defence Force (SPDF), Dr. Riek Machar Teny; MEETING in Nairobi, Kenya, on January 5th, 2002 on their own without the benefit of external mediation and pressure; HAVING EVALUATED the situation of war and peace in the Sudan and the way forward for the just resolution of the conflict; CONVINCED that the unity of our people is paramount for the success of the liberation struggle; CONCERNED of the recalcitrant and bellicose attitude of the NIF regime and its rejection of the Right of Self-determination for the people of South Sudan including Abyei, and Southern Blue Nile, Southern Kordofan and other marginalized areas of the Sudan, while imposing at the same time an Islamic state in the country; ALARMED by the determination of the NIF regime to impose an Islamic state and dictatorship on the people of the Sudan and perpetuate it by all means; DETERMINED to halt the vandalization and wanton looting of our oil and other natural resources and their use for prosecution of the war by the illegitimate, fascist and Islamic Fundamentalist regime in Khartoum; FULLY AWARE that a united stand is the only sure way to bring the war to a just and speedy end; HEREBY AGREE: To the immediate merger of the two Movements under the historical name of SPLM/SPLA, and on the basis of the following principles:
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