"We are ready to share power and resources in Darfur, we are ready for genuine federalism," Information Minister Al-Zhawi Ibrahim Malik told AFP in an interview.
"We are ready to reach an agreement as we have done in resolving the conflict in southern Sudan," said Malik in reference to Kenyan peace talks with the Sudan People's Liberation Army aimed at ending the two-decade civil war with the southern rebel group.Malik, a former mines minister, recalled that foreign firms had found oil in Darfur as well as copper and uranium deposits, creating a potentially strong resource basis for any autonomous administration in the region.
Khartoum is "ready to resume negotiations any time and any place in Africa," following a breakdown of talks in Addis Adaba last month, he said.