Kiir Receives Draft Interim Constitution Of South Sudan The technical committee tasked to review the 2005 Interim Constitution has finally completed drafting of the 2011 South Sudan Transitional Constitution and handed it yesterday to the GOSS president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, Mirayardit.21 April 2011 The GOSS President, Salva Kiir Mayardit [http://timesofindia.com] By Juma Stephen & Peter Lokale JUBA, 21st April, 2011 [Gurtong] – The technical committee tasked to review the 2005 Interim Constitution has finally completed drafting of the 2011 South Sudan Transitional Constitution and handed it yesterday to the GOSS president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, Mirayardit.
President Kiir said that after this stage, the document is to be shared this with other political party leaders and then the Council of Ministers of the Government of Southern Sudan, after which it will go the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly. “The time was short for you to do this but you managed to come up with a document to start our way from here,” President Kiir Said. He added that, “It was not easy to fight the war so we should not expect everything to be easy for us. We must struggle because we want the coming generations to remember this.” The president regretted that the fact that other political parties withdrew from this committee but he was quick to correct any doubts that it was not intended to discriminate anybody. “It was the work of the government to appoint this technical committee to review the constitutional and amend the articles that were supposed to be amended.” He affirmed. Kiir said that those who left the committee and resigned should learn that it was not intended to discriminate any political party; he warned that all accusations must stop. “We don’t want all these accusations and counter accusation to continue if we are going to immerge as a young nation. We should be as united as possible to overcome all our problems.” He said. The Chairperson of the Committee, John Luk Jok delivered the document to the President. “Am here to present the accounts of the Committee’s work, the recommend draft Interim Constitution of Southern Sudan 2005, It shall now be known as the Transitional Constitution of Southern Sudan 2011,” John Luk read. According to Luk, the Interim Constitution and institutions established after it will continue even after 2011. Posted in: Home -- 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.
