We, a coalition of European organizations working for peace for Sudan are calling for action by European governments and oil companies to ensure that Sudan's oil wealth ceases to fuel war.
Oil should bring peace and prosperity to Sudan, but it causes massive human suffering.

We invite the oil companies operating in Sudan to become a force for the good and to suspend their operations until there is peace. We urge the European governments to actively discourage investment in Sudan's oil sector as a necessary step towards peace in the country .

We do not believe that European investors want to make a profit from oil that is fuelling war and we trust they will act accordingly.

We have the following requests:

To oil companies engaged in exploration, production, and internationalmarketing of Sudanese oil:

1. to immediately suspend their operations until a just and lasting peace has been agreed in the Sudan and until the victims of forced displacements have safely returned to their places of origin.



To oil companies holding inactive concessions, such as TotalFinaElf:

2. to abstain from any activities, including seismic work and drilling, until a just and lasting peace has been agreed in the Sudan;
3. to monitor the human rights situation in its concession areas, including the bombing of civilian targets and forced displacements and to publicly denounce abuses that do occur;
4. to inform the Government of Sudan that it will not activate its concession until a just and lasting peace has been agreed and all victims of forced displacement from its concession have safely returned to their places of origin.



To all companies:

5. not to supply any equipment or services (including financial, technical and others) to the Sudanese oil extraction industry until a just and lasting peace has been agreed;
6. not to internationally market Nile Blend crude until a just and lasting peace has been agreed.
   

   To shareholders, pension funds and institutional investors:

7. to consider divesting from companies active in Sudan's oil extracting industry or trading Nile Blend crude, including indirect investors such as BP, if they do not comply with the above requests by the time of the companies' annual general meetings.
   

   To banks:

8. to search, identify and end all existing transactions and financial operations that are linked with the production and marketing of Nile Blend crude, and not to make any such deals until a just and lasting peace has been agreed in Sudan;
9. to decline from financing any company active in the Sudanese oil industry until a just and lasting peace has been agreed in Sudan.

To the Government of Austria:

10. to exercise its influence (35% of the shares) over OMV Aktiengesellschaftto ensure that this company immediately suspend its operations until a justand lasting peace has been agreed in the Sudan.
    

    To the Government of Sweden:

11. to take effective measures to ensure that Lundin Oil AB immediately suspend its operations until a just and lasting peace has been agreed in Sudan.
    
    To the Member States of the European Union:
    
12. to ensure that a 'Troika' mission will be sent into the oil rich areas of Sudan with a mandate to assess the impact of oil exploitation on the human rights situation, the war and prospects for peace and to prepare for the establishment of a permanent European monitoring capacity in the conflict areas of Sudan. The mission would visit government controlled and non-government controlled areas and would involve suitably qualified specialists and technical experts. It would make specific recommendations to European Union Member States about oil company involvement in Sudan and about ways to bring the sides to the conflict to a successful negotiating
    position while respecting the Declaration of Principles of the IGAD peaceprocess;
13. to actively discourage investing in the Sudanese oil sector under the current circumstances, including a refusal to provide export credit cover or overseas Embassy facilitation for companies wishing to do such business until a just and lasting peace has been agreed in Sudan;
14. to promote a EU temporary investment ban on European company investment in the Sudanese oil sector and to close its borders to Nile Blend crude until a just and lasting peace has been agreed in Sudan;
15. to set benchmarks for its dialogue with the government of Sudan, which should include full and unimpeded access to the oil areas for independent researchers, unambiguous human rights performance indicators and full respect for international humanitarian law. The benchmarks should have a special focus on the oil rich regions and the war zones, effectively address the issue of safe return of all victims of forced displacements, and comprise criteria for oil revenue management;
16. to regularly and transparently evaluate its dialogue with the Government of Sudan;
17. to put its concerns about the impact of CNPC's activities in Sudan on peace and human rights high on the agenda of Europe's human rights dialogue with China;
18. to share its concerns about the impact of Petronas' activities on peace and human rights in Sudan with the Government of Malaysia;
19. to openly encourage the Canadian Government to end Talisman Energy Inc's complicity with war and gross and systematic human rights violations in Sudan.

To the Members of the European Parliament:



20. to support the above recommendations to the Member States of the European Union;
21. to actively seek Member States to observe the Parliament's earlier resolutions on Sudan;
22. to ensure that Member States take effective action against European involvement in the development of Sudan's oil industry under the current circumstances;
23. to include the Sudan oil case in the upcoming hearings on corporate social responsibilities. To the Members of Parliament of the EU Member States:
24. to monitor the companies registered in their jurisdiction for compliance with the above recommendations;
25. to see to it that Member States take effective action against European involvement in the development of Sudan's oil industry until a just and lasting peace has been agreed in Sudan.