Sudan's ruling National Congress Party (NCP) opened its third general conference in Khartoum on Thursday with the participation of over 6,000 party members.
Sudanese President and NCP Chairman Omar al-Bashir will address the three-day conference, which will also attract representatives of more than 50 political organizations from 35 Arab, African, Asian and European countries.
NCP Political Secretary, Mustafa Osman Ismail, said in a statement Thursday that the conference would discuss the party's political, executive and economic performance.
The conferees would be then divided into committees that are expected to approve recommendations and amendments in the political statute, he said.
Ismail expected broad participation of heads of Arab and African political groupings, saying "we maintain good relations at the Arab and African levels."
He disclosed that the NCP would seek to come out with a proposal on how to free the third world from hegemony of the superpowers and to set up a strategy to develop the third world countries without the conditioned support of the first world countries.
The proposal would reflect that conflicts, poverty and economic deterioration were behind the destabilization and fragmentation of unity in the third world, he added.