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GOSS delegation wraps up regional tour
Tue, February 24 2009
By MRC/LO-Nbi [Kenya]

NAIROBI - The delegation of the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) assigned to brief African countries on the current political developments in Sudan has concluded its three-week long tour of the region with a stop-over in Kenya for talks on substantive issues with Kenyan government officials.

Led by the South Sudan minister of Regional Cooperation, Dr. Barnaba Marial Benjamin, the delegates first met with the Kenyan Foreign Affairs minister, Mr. Watengula, where they shed light upon the challenges facing the full and expeditious implementation of the IGAD-mediated Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), signed between the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) and the National Congress Party government in January 2005. Dr. Marial Benjamin explained to the Foreign Minister that laxity in monitoring the partners’ commitment to this peace accord has contributed to the setbacks. He urged regional countries to put pressure on the peace partners to respect the agreement and the obligations they have made to the Sudanese people. He further explained that the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement is keen on seeing a systematic implementation of all aspects and protocols of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

Later on the same day, the southern Sudanese government delegation went to see former President Daniel Arap Moi, whose persistent diplomatic efforts had brought forth the peace negotiations which led to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and ended the 22-year-old civil conflict in Sudan.

Mr. Arap Moi is now the Kenyan government’s special envoy to Sudan, and is tasked with monitoring the implementation of the peace accord. In 2007, he made an official trip to Juba and Khartoum to assess the progress made, and advise both the SPLM and the NCP to keep their commitments vis-a-vis the CPA.

The Chairperson of the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly Committee on Regional and International Cooperation, Mrs. Agnes Lasuba, South Sudan’s minister for Telecommunications, Ger Aloung, and the Director of Protocol in the ministry of Regional Cooperation, Mr. Sebit Bullen, accompanied Dr. Marial Benjamin on the three-week long tour of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda.

 

 

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