The SPLM shall not isolate itself from the overall Sudanese political situation at the center (Khartoum), and will not relegate itself to a regional movement as some Southerners and Northerners would wish. The SPLM shall continue to be a national Movement and to champion national goals within the context of the New Sudan. Hence, the Movement will continue to appeal to Northerners to join the SPLM, as well as establish itself in areas of Northern Sudan that it has as yet not reached.

As a matter of principle, the SPLM will continue to enter into peace talks for peaceful settlement of the Sudanese conflict with the Government of the day in Khartoum, but this must be on the basis of confederation, self-determination and the New Sudan.

The SPLM shall continue to be a member of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), and shall continue to play an active role in it, while maintaining its organizational, political and military independence.

The Movement is committed to the Asmara Declaration, and the SPLM shall continue to work with the other members of the NDA to resolve the outstanding (unresolved) and gray areas in the Asmara Declaration.

The SPLM will work with other members of the NDA to bring about the concrete convergence of the armed struggle, as waged in the countryside, with the Intifadha in the urban areas, so as to overthrow the NIF regime in a decisive way and in the shortest time possible, and thereby ushering in the New Sudan through the alternative modality of the NDA.