NCP - SPLM Premiers Set To Finalise CPA Implementation The two implementing partners to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement,CPA; Sudan People’s Liberation Movement led by GOSS President Salva Kiir and National Congress Party, led by President Omar el Bashir have agreed to finalize implementation of the remaining protocols during their meeting in Juba. 08 April 2011
(L-R) Dr. Riek, Thabo Mbeki, Salva Kiir and Omar Bashir, Juba [©Gurtong] By Waakhe Simon Wudu JUBA, 7th April 2011 [Gurtong] - The two implementing partners to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement,CPA; Sudan People’s Liberation Movement led by GOSS President Salva Kiir and National Congress Party, led by President Omar el Bashir have agreed to finalize implementation of the remaining protocols during their meeting in Juba. The agreement was declared shortly following the arrival of Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al Bashir to Juba today. He was welcome by the President of Government of Southern Sudan, who is also the first Vice President of the Republic of Sudan Salva Kiir Mayardit. The two leaders convened in a two hours closed-door meeting at J-One-South Sudan new Presidential Palace in Juba to discuss and set ways of finalizing the implementation of the CPA protocols. The head of the African Union High Level Implementation Panel Thabo Mbeki mediated talks during the meeting between the two partners. Speaking shortly to the press after the meeting, Thabo said that, the parties have agreed to resolve the remaining parts of the peace deal before 9th July 2011 in a peaceful and diplomatic way. “Both of them confirmed that they have accepted this program of work,” Thabo said. He added that, the meeting of the two leaders in Juba demonstrated their commitment finalize the CPA protocols. Last month, the Sudanese Ministry of Defence and the South Sudanese Ministry of the SPLA agreed to resolve four security issues which included; definition of security zone along the North-South border; the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Sudan, Joint Integrated Units-JIUs, and SPLA forces in South Kordofan and Blue Nile, and Southerners associated with the Sudan Armed Forces-SAF. The two leaders, Bashir, Kiir and AU’s Thabo Mbeki agreed to have resolved on immediate recommencement of talks on Abyei oil rich area, and economic issues as the key remaining issues in the implementation of the CPA starting tomorrow. He further highlighted that, on 15th and 16th April 2011, the two parties and the AU mediating partner will travel to Washington to meet the International Monitory Fund-IMF and the World Bank to discuss Sudan and South economic issues and debt. Thabo revealed that the two leaders will this week meet in Khartoum to agree on an agenda for the meeting in the United States. Posted in: Home Comments -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JFD info" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jfdinfo?hl=en.
