LRA’s expulsion is the task of Sudan’s Army and SPLA – Salva Kiir

Feb 21, 2006 (JUBA) — The First Vice-President and president of Southern Sudan government, Lt-Gen Salva Kiir Mayardit, has affirmed that the responsibility of expelling the Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) from the South is a joint responsibility between the armed forces, the Sudan People’s Liberation Army and the joint forces.

During a press conference this evening before leaving Juba for Khartoum, Salav Kiir said no detailed plan had been formulated to expel the LRA from the Equatorial states to date.

He said the concerned parties would draw up a plan and they would be the ones to announce it.

During his visit to Juba on 14 February, the president Omar al-Bashir, has instructed the government of southern Sudan to take full security responsibility to expel the Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) “from the south within one month starting from today”.

In a press statement to the BBC yesterday, the president of the government of southern Sudan accused the Sudanese army of supporting the LRA. But Khartoum denied it.

(ST)