Pagan Amum, the secretary general of the ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), was speaking to reporters shortly after meeting President Salva Kiir Mayardit in the state house. Kiir, Amum said, has granted him, as South Sudan’s lead negotiator, the authority to present the position of the government to an upcoming meeting of an African Union team of border experts and conflict mitigation in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa. Amum said the president had assured him of his readiness to provide necessary support to the full implementation of the bilateral cooperation agreement signed in September 2012. "The president accepted the plan and gave me his authority and assurances of commitment to fully implement the cooperation agreement as well as desire to peacefully settle the differences we have over the status of Abyei", he said. He said South Sudan accepts the proposal by African Union High-Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) to hold referendum in Abyei as the only way to settle the dispute. "You all know that the position of the president and the government of South Sudan have always been peaceful dialogue and the best mechanisms to settle dispute over Abyei in a way that respects and promotes peaceful coexistence and bilateral relations between the two communities but the government of Sudan has always taken different routes", he said. He further told reporters that Khartoum has "refused to accept African union proposal to hold a referendum (in October of this year without the Messeeiya nomads) and decided to engage to employ ethnic cleansing activities. They have decided to engage in massive settlement plans of the non-resident of Abyei and seriously arming militia groups to terrorize the local population". The chief negotiator pointed out that the recent killing of the paramount chief as one of the strategic plans of the government of Sudan to depopulate the area so that it could assume full control.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Jun 2013 06:02:18 +0000
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