PREAMBLE
We the people of the Sudan
Grateful to Almighty God who has bestowed upon us the wisdom and
will to reach a Comprehensive Peace Agreement that has definitively
put an end to the longest running conflict in Africa,
Having survived the tragic consequences that have characterized that
debilitating conflict,
ِMindful of religious, racial, ethnic and cultural diversity in the Sudan,
Committed to establish a decentralized multi-party democratic system
of governance in which power shall be peacefully transferred and to
uphold values of justice, equality, human dignity and equal rights and
duties of men and women,
Further committed to gearing governance, in the coming phase of our
political advancement, towards the enhancement of economic
development, promotion of social harmony, deepening of religious
tolerance and building trust and confidence in the society generally,
Committed to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement of January 2005,
guided by the 1998 Constitution and the Sudanese constitutional
experience since independence and other relevant experiences,
Cognizant of conferences and the initiative of inclusive popular
dialogue and agreements of peace and national reconciliation,
particularly the Cairo Agreement signed in June 2005, and prospects
of other peace agreements to end conflicts in the country,
Do hereby adopt this Constitution as the supreme law by which the
Republic of the Sudan shall be governed during the Interim Period;
and we undertake to respect and protect it.
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