RSS has presented a draft proposal on all outstanding Issues. JUBA 23 July 2012 - The Republic of South Sudan through its negotiating team yesterday at 10pm local time presented a final draft agreement proposal to the African Union High Implementation Panel (AUHIP) and the government of the Republic of Sudan addressing all the outstanding issues, a government official has revealed.
A press statement obtained by goss.org from the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-SPLM states that the two negotiation teams agreed to comb through the document so as to identify the areas of differences in the presence of the AUHIP for a possible agreement on all the unresolved post independence issues between the two countries. Click here to read the proposal. Reported by Matata Safi Parliament agrees on 6.6 billion-pound austerity budget JUBA, July 22 2012 (NASS) - The National Legislative Assembly has unanimously agreed on 6.6 billion austerity budget for the year 2012 – 2013. This was arrived at last week in their process of fourth reading. The minister for Finance and Economic Planning, Hon Kosti Manibe Ngai who attended the session said this budget may affect some government institutions according to government priorities but urged the affected institutions to adapt to go new realities. He explained that basic services are safe from these measures adding that finance and economic committee has made significant progress in the preparation of the budget disclosing that there is an amount of 256,778,187 pounds as reserved for budget support. He as well revealed that the finance and economic committee has recommended that there is a need to change in the nearest future the Sudanese financial form 15 with the new one in addition to the adoption of stamps used by the government official in private management like nationality and immigration. Professor Paul Logale, the chairperson of finance and economic development in the assembly said parliament must guide the Ministry of Interior to develop a system of collection at border point and airport using stickers in visa procedures instead of stamps which he said is most corrupt. On the other hand, he suggested that the committee should limit the number of cars benefiting from government fuel to determine the number of cars limited in each ministry but the parliament preferred the matter be discussed. Most importantly, the austerity budget did not affect the budget plan of ministries like ministry of health, education, defense and security. In his recommendation to the parliament, the chairman of the economic and finance committee called on the parliament to pass the budget for the conduct of government activities especially in the areas of basic services. However the parliamentarians appealed to all the ministries to abide by all the articles in the budget without exceeding its ceiling. Abraham Malek, NASS -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
