South-South Sudan dialogue meeting to start next week in Juba
Wednesday 15 October 2008 02:30.
October 14, 2008 (KHARTOUM) — The Southern Sudan ruling party and nine southern
parties are set next Monday to begin political dialogue to boost Southern Sudan
unity and to discuss political development in the country.
The leaders of Alliance of South Sudan Political parties after signing
memorandum of understaning todat at Rock City Hotel in Juba on June 30, 2008
(Isaac Vuni, ST)
The Information secretary of the South Sudan Democratic Front (SSDF), Gordon
Buay said today that the Alliance of South Sudan Political Parties (ASSPP) and
the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) would hold an inter-southern
Sudanese political dialogue in Juba on October 20.
"This dialogue is a continuation of a dialogue between the SPLM and Southern
parties which took place in April 2005 and led to the signing of South Sudan
Covenant." Buay said in a press release issued today.
Last June eight southern Sudan political forces held a five-day meeting in Juba
to found the ASSPP. They also called for the resumption of South-South
Dialogue. Buay said the SPLM Chairman Salva Kiir Mayadrit accepted the call of
the alliance.
On the top agenda of the meeting the dialogue meeting will discuss ways to
combat tribalism, corruption and the address insecurity throughout the southern
Sudan. The gathering will tackle also the need for unity of purpose among the
people of South Sudan; promotion of human rights and the protection of minority
tribes in the South and women empowerment in the regional and nation
institutions.
According to the SSDF official, the meeting also will discuss the indictment of
the Sudanese president by the International criminal Court and its impact of
the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
Further, it would discuss the progress of the CPA implementation, and the need
to pass Referendum Act in the national assembly as it stipulated in the peace
agreement.
Are members of the ASSPP: United Democratic Front (UDF), Sudan African National
Union (SANU), Union of Sudan African Parties (USAP Two), South Sudan Democratic
Front (SSDF), South Sudan Democratic Forum (SSDF), Covenant Democratic Party
(CDP) and Sudan National Labour Party (SNLP).
(ST)
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