UN Official Predicts Disaster Without Ugandan Peace JUBA, Sudan (AFP)--U.N. Under Secretary General John Holmes warned Friday of regional disaster sucking in several countries unless Ugandan rebels sign an impending peace deal with the government.
"This is the last chance for them (the rebels) to do so," Holmes told reporters in the southern Sudan capital Juba after talks with senior officials focused on the country's key Comprehensive Peace Agreement. The Ugandan government Friday urged elusive rebel leader Joseph Kony to sign an overdue peace agreement but voiced doubts the Lord's Resistance Army chief would show up for the weekend signing. "I hope they would sign," Holmes said. "Otherwise, the possibility of going backwards with the LRA in this region is very real. It would be disastrous not only for this country, but also for northern Uganda, Congo and the Central African Republic." A deadline set by the Kampala government for Kony to sign a peace deal ending a two-decade-old civil war in northern Uganda was to expire Saturday but the rebel leader has so far failed to attend several meetings. A Ugandan delegation flew into Juba, where they were preparing to travel to Ri-Kwangba, in the jungle of southern Sudan for a planned ceremony Saturday. "We are ready to sign," said the head of the delegation, Sam Kagoda, after landing in Juba. "We are waiting for the other side." Click here to go to Dow Jones NewsPlus, a web front page of today's most important business and market news, analysis and commentary: http:// www.djnewsplus.com/al?rnd=AhwCpQQ0pWKzJrCNi%2Bzc7w%3D%3D. You can use this link on the day this article is published and the following day.
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