S. Sudan’s Kiir to attend IGAD’s extraordinary summit in Ethiopia
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President Salva Kiir and Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn speak
after the signing of bilateral cooperation agreements in Addis Ababa
on 24 February 2017 (ENA Photo)
June 7, 2017 (JUBA) - South Sudan president Salva Kiir will attend the
upcoming extraordinary summit organised by the intergovernmental
authority on development (IGAD), the regional bloc which mediated the
2015 peace agreement to end the devastating conflict in the young
nation.
A presidential aide said the South Sudan leader would himself attend
the summit if no important matters required his attention at home.
"This is an important meeting of heads of state of the IGAD member
countries. It is being specifically convened to discuss the current
situation in the country, which is an encouraging and important
initiative", Tor Deng Mawien, the presidential advisor on
decentralisation and intergovernmental linkage said Wednesday.
He said IGAD has a role in persuading armed and non-political forces
to join the national dialogue. He stressing that a home-grown peace
deal from the dialogue will be sustainable, inclusive and grounded on
the full respect of the ratified international human rights treaties.
The official’s comments follow a letter by the Chairperson of the IGAD
Assembly of Heads of state and government inviting President Kiir for
an extraordinary summit to be held on 12 June 2017 in the Ethiopian
capital, Addis Ababa.
The Ethiopian Prime Minister, Hailemariam Dessalegn has convened an
extraordinary meeting in respond to numerous reports by the Joint
Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (JMEC) chairperson on the
unfolding situation in South Sudan, the latest effort to convene the
National Dialogue, and consultations with IGAD member states.
The summit, according to a statement from IGAD, is expected to
deliberate on the security and humanitarian situation facing South
Sudan. The deteriorating security situation has resulted in the
increase in numbers of the internally displaced persons and refugees,
thus requiring IGAD’s intervention.
IGAD’s consultations with the African Union and United Nations implies
that the region has to lead the way for a concerted effort to bring
forward the dialogue to solve South Sudan’s problem.
The regional bloc, following the clashes that occurred in Juba in July
2016, backed the appointment of Taban Deng Gai as the First Vice
President and encouraged President Kiir to implement the deal saying
this would allow Machar to compete democratically in the
post-Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of
South Sudan (ARCSS) period.
The increase of violence, flagrant human rights violations and war
crimes prompted U.N officials to express fears that a genocide might
occur in the war-torn nation.
(ST)
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