Separation of the judiciary from the executive. (4) (5) Abolition of closed areas laws and lifting of trade restrictions. (6) Enactment of legislation defining Sudanese nationality. (7) Halting immigration to Sudan, except as determined by the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty. (8) Non-renewal of the Gezira Agricultural Company contract. (9) Implementation of welfare and priority, as follows: a. By giving Sudanese opportunities to participate in governance by appointing individuals with political responsibility in all main branches of government. b. Restricting positions to Sudanese. For positions that necessity dictates must be filled by non-Sudanese, they will be filled on fixed-term contracts with training provided for Sudanese to fill them at the end of the term. (10) Enabling Sudanese to invest the country's commercial, agricultural, and industrial resources. (11) Enactment of a law obligating companies and unifying educational programs in the North and South. (12) Halting grants to missionary schools and unifying educational programs in the North and South. I recall meeting the Judicial Secretary in Arkawit in 1943, and our conversation touched upon constitutional organizations through which Sudanese could express their opinions on matters of governing their country. He spoke to me about the Advisory Council and the evolution of that council into a Legislative Assembly. I asked him when, in his opinion, that assembly would be established. He replied, "Perhaps in ten or twenty years!!" Establishment of the Legislative Assembly The Legislative Assembly was established five or six years after my conversation with the Judicial Secretary in Arkawit. It is worth noting that the elements that later opposed the Legislative Assembly had accepted the Advisory Council and joined it. After the establishment of the Legislative Assembly, opposition to it intensified. I feared that this opposition was opposition to the idea of independence, not to the Assembly itself. What strengthened this suspicion in my mind was that some of the main opponents of the Assembly were shouting that they rejected it even if it were free from all flaws. 79