IGAD Approves S. Sudan’s High-Level Revitalization Forum For Peace The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Council of Ministers has approved the Indicative Implementation Matrix of the High-Level Revitalization Forum for the peace agreement. 04 July 2017
By Peter Lokale TORIT, 04 July 2017 [Gurtong] –Last month, a summit of IGAD heads of State and government decided to convene a meeting of the signatories of the South Sudan peace agreement to discuss ways to revitalize the implementation. The summit decided that the meeting will include all the groups to discuss concrete measures to restore permanent ceasefire. In a communiqué issued Tuesday, the IGAD Council of Ministers called on parties to the peace agreement, to seize this opportunity to revitalize the deal, renounce violence, to develop, and submit concrete proposals. Community Empowerment for Progress Organization has welcomed the IGAD council of Ministers' decision as it urged the South Sudan conflicting parties to speedily take strong stand for following the pathway for non-violent approach for resolving their political differences. Mr. Edmund Yakani, Executive Director of CEPO said in a statement extended to Gurtong Tuesday that non-violent pathway for resolving political difference in South Sudan should be the best approach and it should be embraced by both the country’s conflicting parties. "... Taking the violent approach for resolving political difference is unacceptable because it is destructive to both human lives and properties." The CEPO's Executive Director expressed that resolving political differences amicably should be adopted and should remain a culture for championing democratization in South Sudan by the political movement and elites. "We are expecting the IGAD called forum to be executed in participatory and representative manner that allows South Sudanese to resolve their political difference as their primary responsibility," Mr. Yakani stressed. Posted in: Home, Foreign Relations -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14or%2BS55RKagWZ6bPmdPsCkS5E6b%3D0G3DmYphK85VH85aBw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
