West Africa Bloc to Back AU Position on South Sudan, Sudan Deals
South Sudan Presidential Envoy to West Africa is reported to have successfully concluded a mission to West Africa in a bid to lobby for a support from the west African countries on South Sudan position on the implementation of the Cooperation Agreements and some of the other post secession issues. 28 January 2013 Pagan Amum, the Secretary General of the ruling SPLM mid this led the delegation to West Africa. [Gurtong | File] By Waakhe Simon Wudu JUBA, 28 February 2013 [Gurtong] - Pagan Amum, the Secretary General of the country’s ruling political party, SPLM mid this month led President Salva Kiir’s envoy to West Africa and first met with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan. In a statement released from his office, Pagan met the Ivorian President Alassane Quattra who pledged as the Head of the West Africa Bloc, ECOWAS to table the issue of the two countries; South Sudan and Sudan for discussion in a move to reinforce the AU’s strategies in sorting out the matter. Alassane Quattra expressed his readiness as the chair of the Regional Block of West Africa countries, to discuss the remaining outstanding issues, Abyei and borders, with his counterparts in West Africa, in support of the African Union High Implementation Panel (AUHIP) proposals on final status of Abyei and borders disputed and claimed areas, said the released statement. “Special Envoy Amum discussed with President Quattra the current situation between South Sudan and Sudan particularly the issues of final status of Abyei, Borders demarcation and the blocking of resumption of oil flow by Sudan,” added the statement. Since the expiry of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2011, an accord that brought an end of a more than two decades of civil war between Sudan and South Sudan, the two countries have failed to sort out their remaining differences, threatening peace in the region. In September 2012, the two countries reached cooperation agreements brokered by the African Union which outlined how several of the post secession issues should be sorted out. However, despite their agreement, the resolutions have remained in paper without full implementation. The AU and its Peace and Security Council leadership in its last meeting held last week in Addis Ababa had expressed deep concern over the slow implementation of the deal and urged for urgent and immediate cooperation of the two countries in speeding up for the implementation of the deal. Posted in: Home, Foreign Relations, Foreign Aid/Assistance -- 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.
