Machar dispatches SPLM-IO team to Washington for diplomacy
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SPLM-IO dispatched team to the United States led by Ambassador Stephen
Par Kuol (blue shirt). Others include Henry Odwar (middle), Goi Joyool
(R) and Reath Muoch (L), Washington DC, October 5, 2016 (Courtesy
photo of SPLM-IO)
October 6, 2016 (JUBA) – Former South Sudan’s First Vice President,
Riek Machar, who was ousted in a controversial replacement process
following the 8 July violence in the capital, Juba, has dispatched to
the United States of America a team of senior officials to engage the
U.S. administration on the situation in South Sudan, his media
official has confirmed.
The team led by Ambassador Stephen Par Kuol, chairperson for national
committee for education in the armed opposition faction of the Sudan
People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM-IO) already arrived in Washington
and have begun engaging the relevant officials and bodies.
“Yes, it is true. The chairman and commander-in-chief of the SPLM/SPLA
(IO), Dr. Riek Machar Teny-Dhurgon, has sent a team to the United
States to help clear the air with the U.S. administration and with our
constituency in the diaspora,” James Gatdet Dak confirmed to Sudan
Tribune on Thursday.
He said the team, which arrived while the South Sudanese newly
appointed First Vice President, Taban Deng, was in the U.S. also
engaged Deng during media debates over the violations of the August
2015 peace agreement in Juba.
Dak further claimed that the new “illegal” First Vice President has no
constituency both in South Sudan and in the diaspora, adding that his
requests to meet the South Sudanese communities in the U.S. was turned
down. He said only few individuals and Deng’s huge members of
government’s delegation plus the South Sudan’s embassy staff in
Washington were his only audience in the U.S.
“It is clear that Dr. Machar commands the overwhelming majority
support of his constituencies in South Sudan and in the diaspora. Our
team has been invited to several states in the U.S. by the South
Sudanese communities while Mr. Taban with his team has been
boycotted,” he said.
Over a 100,000 members of the South Sudanese communities are believed
to be residing across the U.S. with the majority of them being the
Nuer community from which both Machar and Deng hail.
He said the SPLM-IO officials have begun to tour the densely populated
states by South Sudanese to which they have been invited to in order
to brief the people on what actually transpired in Juba as the “peace
agreement has collapsed.”
The opposition’s delegation included Henry Odwar, chairperson for
national committee for energy, Goi Joyool, SPLM-IO representative in
Ethiopia and Reath Muoch, who represents the opposition faction in the
U.S.
Dak also said the team will interact with the U.S.-based media houses
and explain to the American people through the media outlets the
circumstances under which the peace agreement has collapsed.
“It is important that the outgoing U.S administration or its State
Department should not support violations of the August 2015 peace
agreement by President Salva Kiir and his friend, Taban Deng. They
should not succumb to the regime and be tempted to support their
illegal replacement of the peace partner, Dr. Riek Machar, who is
signatory to the agreement,” he said.
Last month while on a visit to Kenya, the U.S. Secretary of State,
John Kerry, said the replacement of Machar as First Vice President was
in accordance with the provisions of the peace agreement.
Machar’s group however said it procedurally violated the Articles 6.4
and 6.5 of the clauses which deal with replacement of top officials in
the transitional government of national unity.
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6 October 23:26, by Akeen Mangarthon
Hahaha, all of the gentlemen are with gap teeth. May be they are
going for dating not diplomacy.
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