Sudan, World Bank hold talks over donors conference

Feb 7, 2006 (KHARTOUM) — The minister of state at the Presidency of the Republic, Tilara Deng, today held talks with a World Bank delegation where they discussed preparations for the forthcoming donors conference to be held on 19 March in Paris, France.

The first vice-president, Lt-Gen Salva Kiir, will attend the conference.

In a statement to the Sudanese Media Centre, Tilara said the government of national unity and the government of the south Sudan would coordinate through their delegates participating in the conference.

He said that the meeting presented studies of proposed projects and ways of implementing them in a given time.

Tilara told the World Bank delegation that the delay in implementing the peace agreement was because the donors had not committed to the pledges they made during the Oslo Conference.