Sudan’s NCP & SPLM resolve on national laws
By James Gatdet Dak
November 26, 2008 (JUBA) – The two signatories to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended the 21 years of war in Sudan in January 2005 have made another breakthrough in establishing laws compatible with the agreement and interim constitution.
The National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) this week reviewed and resolved on the laws that have to do with the Press and Publication, National Land Commission and Human Rights in the spirit of implementing the peace deal.
On his arrival from Khartoum on Wednesday after three days of co-chairing the meeting of the Joint High Political Executive Committee between the two parties, the SPLM First Deputy Chairperson, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, told the press that the Committee would also soon resolve on the law governing the National Security.
Machar, who chairs the SPLM component of the Joint Committee, said the proposed law on Referendum was still under discussion as the NCP committee wanted to first study the SPLM’s presented proposal on the issue.
He did not disclose to the press what was contained in the SPLM proposal.
He added that other laws would also be resolved by the end of next month since elections are coming so that the National Assembly in Khartoum passes them before it goes on recess.
On the Uganda peace process he said there are plans for the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), Joseph Kony to sign the negotiated final peace agreement on 29th of this month at the Sudan-DR Congo border of Ri-kwangba.
Dr. Machar, who mediates between the two parties to the Uganda’s 22-year old conflict, added that if Kony signed the document, the Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni would also sign the peace agreement on 30th of November in Juba.
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