CEPO Calls On Worrying Parties To Compromise For Peace The Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO), a civil society organization based in South Sudan is calling on the worrying parties of the conflict to compromise for peace in the next round of the Addis Ababa peace talks scheduled for next month. 24 July 2015
By Jok P Mayom *JUBA, 23, July 2015 [Gurtong]*-CEPO hopes the Intergovernmental Agency for Development (IGAD) plus team will deliberate on South Sudan Peace proposal focusing at discussing the draft comprise document, which the warring parties are expected to negotiate and sign in the quest for lasting peace. Mr. Edmund Yakani, the Executive Director of CEPO has lauded the united stand of IGAD Plus team, which he believes, will make significant contributions in the negotiation process. “There is unity of all the players around the peace process, this process of discussion on the compromised document. We wish them to continue” he told the reporters at a news conference on Thursday. “We need to acknowledge that this process should lead to peace. We worry that the failure of peace in this round of talks may have a great impact on our lives” said Yakani. “South Sudan negotiating parties should compromise and accommodate certain issues during the mediation process for the sake of making peace realized.” “The contentious issues of power-sharing, decision making threshold and security arrangement are setting drawbacks on the peace deal and IGAD-plus should critically analyzed them and offer practical options that mobilized the negotiation parties of South Sudan to mediate for peace” he said. Yakani said the IGAD-plus approach has instilled hope of attaining peace in South Sudan in this round of the mediation process adding that members of the regional and international communities have demonstrated a united position of pushing for peace in South Sudan. “The challenge in the previous round of the mediation was the absence of the united position among the various actors around the mediation process” he pointed out. “The beginning of the IGAD-Plus deliberation on the next round of the peace mediation for South Sudan is encouraging since it brings in several actors including Troika” he said. Yakani further said it is the primary responsibility of the leadership of South Sudan negotiating parties to make peace prevail including immediate stoppage of the war by demonstrating political will for successful peace negotiation. “Taking position during the negotiation without the attitude of compromise and accommodation for peace in the next round of the mediation will demonstrate that South Sudanese negotiating parties are careless about the loss of lives and properties of the innocent citizens” he decried. “This war is a senseless war and much influenced by personal or group of individuals love for political power”, Mr. Yakani stressed. Posted in: Home <http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/CategoryView/mid/519/categoryId/1/Home.aspx> Comments [image: RSS comment feed] <http://gurtong.net/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=124&ModuleID=519&ArticleID=17075> There are currently no comments, be the first to post one. -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14opCKpzU1vGwO%2BPK_CTGoLOo3spt6vmBL1HUQhrLG07akg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
