South Sudan’s former detainees make second visit to Juba on party reunification
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June 20, 2015 (JUBA) - A four-member delegation of former South
Sudanese political detainees of the ruling Sudan People’s Liberation
Movement (SPLM) on Saturday made another return visit to the country’s
capital, Juba, in less than three weeks after their first visit on 2
June.
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Former cabinet affairs minister and G-10 team leader Deng Alor with
former justice minister, John Luk Jok, after their arrival at Juba
Airport on 1 June 2015 (Photo Moses Lomayat)
The group, led by former cabinet affairs minister, Deng Alor Kuol,
composed of former Lakes state governor, Chol Tong Mayay, former
justice minister, John Luk Jok and former minister of finance, Kosti
Manibe to continue talks on reunification with the pro-government’s
party faction.
They were accompanied by the foreign minister of Kenya, Amina
Mohammad, and received on arrival at Juba international airport by
some officials of the ruling party in the government who are members
of the intraparty dialogue team.
Akol Paul Kordit, spokesman of the representatives of the faction
allied to president Salva Kiir in the intraparty talks told reporters
that the new visit of the group to the country was a follow-up on the
sidelines meeting which Kenyan president, Uhuru Kenyatta, had with
president Salva Kiir during his recent African Union summit in South
Africa. The Johannesburg consultative meeting, he said, discussed host
of issues, including the ongoing reunification process in the party.
The official stressed that the latest visit will build on the progress
made from the previous visit and will give a big push to the Arusha
peace process and to the general search for peace in the country.
“We are receiving today this delegation led by Deng Alor accompanied
by the foreign minister of the Republic of Kenya. This initiative came
as a result of a meeting held on the sidelines of the African Union
summit in Johannesburg between our president Salva and Uhuru Kenyatta.
They came in a follow-up to that meeting,” Kordit said.
Meanwhile, former justice minister, John Luk Jok, who is spokesman of
the delegation of the former detainees said the visit was part of the
activities they were undertaking to bring peace to the country.
“This is part of the series of the activities we have decided to
undertake to bring peace. It will not be the last visit to Juba. We
will continue to come until there is peace and stability in the
country,” Jok told reporters.
He said their group returned to Juba again to make further engagement
with the party officials in the government and to meet president Kiir
on issues about reunification.
He did not disclose details of the issues the group intended to bring
up at a closed-door meeting scheduled to take place at the
headquarters of the ruling party on Saturday evening.
Observers say the group, which appears to have been sidelined in the
Addis Ababa peace talks between the warring parties, wants to take the
advantage of the intraparty dialogue, and allegedly to get an
opportunity to be considered in the future government.
Akol Paul Kordit, the SPLM youth league leader and member of SPLM in
government said peace is within reach as portrayed by repeated visits
to Juba by former detainees.
“Therefore, their arrival this morning boost the Arusha Agreement
process and to the general search for peace in the country,” he said.
But the absence of the armed SPLM in Opposition representatives led by
the former vice-president Riek Machar casts doubt on the effectiveness
of the efforts to end the conflict. Machar’s group has described these
meetings between Juba and former detainees as “having no impact.”
(ST)
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