South Sudan steps up efforts to achieve immediate priorities before July 9
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March 25, 2011 (JUBA) – The emerging independent state of South Sudan
has stepped up efforts in fixing pressing priorities which it needs to
achieve within the next remaining three months of transition to
statehood by July 9.
This came as a result of the overwhelming vote for secession from the
North in the self-determination’s referendum conducted in January 2011
by the people of Southern Sudan in accordance with the peace deal
signed in 2005 between the former rebel movement in the South, the
Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) and the ruling National
Congress Party (NCP) in Khartoum.
In a press release issued on Thursday by the Press Officer in the
Southern Sudan 2011 Taskforce, James Gatdet Dak, who is in charge of
press unit in the taskforce’s technical secretariat, a meeting held on
Wednesday by the taskforce reviewed the priorities which were divided
into categories.
While identifying post-July priorities as a separate category, the
taskforce has reviewed and identified what it calls “core functions”
which require intensive work and follow up in order to achieve them
before July. “These include issues to do with international relations,
rule of law, governance, economy and natural resources, service
delivery and security and intelligence,” the statement said.
Also preparations for the transition to statehood in July include
reviewing the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS),
which is set to expire in July.
“Putting in place a mechanism for building political consensus,
finalizing the process of reviewing the interim constitution,
strategizing for statehood recognition and identifying and producing
symbols for the nation, etc,” are among the identified core functions.
The taskforce also harmonizes the core functions and other post-July
priorities with any similar priority issues which might have been
addressed under the development plan’s working group which jointly
involves the ministry of Finance and Economic Planning and
international partners in the region.
Southern Sudan 2011 Taskforce is a body formed in February 2010 by the
President of the Government of Southern Sudan, Salva Kiir Mayardit,
under the chairmanship of his deputy, Riek Machar Teny, to prepare the
region for the conduct of the referendum, post-referendum arrangements
as well as on post-independence governance.
Its membership includes GoSS ministers, representatives from political
parties, civil society organizations and faith-based groups. It has
branches in all the ten states of South Sudan under the supervision of
the state governors.
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