S. Sudan says IGAD revitalization forum not for new peace deal
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July 26, 2017 (JUBA) - South Sudan government says the revitalization
forum by the East African regional bloc (IGAD), which mediated the
2015 peace deal would not be another platform for negotiation of the
new peace agreement between the two factions to the conflict.
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S. Sudan cabinet affairs minister Martin Elia Lomoro (Photo KT Press)
“To the best of my knowledge, the IGAD revitalization is not a
platform for renegotiation of the agreement. It is a forum meant to
evaluate the peace agreement and to see areas which have not been
implemented in the agreement could be fast tracked”, said the
country’s cabinet affairs minister, Martin Elia Lomuro.
The minister said the physical presence of the estranged parties was
not necessary, but can they can contribute their ideas and send them
to the IGAD secretariat for evaluation by the forum members.
“What is important is that the views of the estranged parties should
reach the forum, not necessarily they appear in person because this is
not new negotiation. It is a forum through which ideas could be
presented so that they are used to help the secretariat devise a
mechanism to help with the implementation process”, he stressed during
an exclusive interview with Sudan Tribune on Wednesday.
The Ethiopian minister of foreign affairs said the forum will develop
a revised and realistic timeline as well as the implementation
schedule towards a democratic election at the end of the transitional
period.
On Monday, the IGAD council of ministers on began reviewing progress
so far achieved and also started consultations on ways of revitalizing
the peace process in war-torn South Sudan.
The meeting, held in South Sudan, renewed calls for warring parties to
support the revitalization process of the August 2015 peace deal.
While opening the 58th extraordinary session of the regional bloc
meeting, the chairperson of the IGAD council of ministers, also
Ethiopia’s foreign minister, Workneh Gebeyehu, stressed the need for
an accommodating, inclusive and viable process.
The council of ministers vowed to deliberate the peace process in
South Sudan and the planned high-level revitalization forum, with
various stakeholders, including representatives of the international
community, faith-based organisations, eminent persons, youth, women,
the civil society and private sector prior to its deliberations.
Last month, East African leaders at a summit meeting held in Addis
Ababa called for the revitalization of the 2015 South Sudan peace
accord, saying the agreement was the only solution for the conflict.
IGAD is an eight-member economic bloc that brings together Ethiopia,
Djibouti, Somalia, Sudan, Eritrea, South Sudan, Kenya and Uganda.
Over a million people have fled South Sudan since conflict erupted in
December 2013 when President Salva Kiir sacked Riek Machar from the
vice-presidency. Tens of thousands of people have been killed and
nearly two million displaced in South Sudan’s worst ever violence
since it seceded from Sudan in 2011.
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27 July 10:19, by Sunday Junup
Go to hell with your IGAD deal, South Sudanese are tired of your
business deal
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27 July 10:29, by Dak tak
The stupidity at it best. Refusing to face your adversary won’t
help you but continue the suffering of the people. In Sudan, the
government is begging all the rebel to come to round table. And the
reverse is true in south Sudan where the government fear talking the
rebel. The government of south Sudan is run by egocentric group that
only use the country as a hunting ground. They prefer war.
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27 July 10:33, by Dak tak
Through war the likes of Martin will continue to loot under cover
of emergency state they declared. Keeping Machar out to them means
continuation of war, now their interest. Ok let’s give war a chance
then. The ends will be that ugly.
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27 July 12:54, by Dalta Cirea
Revitalization forum mean that renewal of peace deal and go back
to the signature of the Compherenship peace agreement.
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27 July 16:52, by lino
You SS Government are joking. The evaluation is done by JMEC and
not the peace brokers. When peace brokers are involved, it means
serious or implementation is not working.
I have said Kiir and Taban are friends not enemies. Peace is made
and implemented between enemies and not friends. Oppositions must be
involved in rewriting this peace and where it broke down.
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27 July 16:53, by Eastern
It is unfortunate that this mad man, Elia Lomoro has been left as
the only voice of Equatorians in Kiir’s cabinet!! James Wani Iga,
after attaining his Ph.D has become philosophical to stoop so low -
PhD. is the way to go!!
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