Ruling NCP, SPLM finalize preparations of leaderships joint meeting
May 23, 2006 (KHARTOUM) — The ruling National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) have affirmed completion of preparations for holding their joint meeting on 27- 28 of current May.
The meeting will bring together the members of NCP Leadership Office and the SPLM Politburo.
In a joint meeting at the NC Headquarters in Khartoum Tuesday co-chaired by the NCP Deputy Chairman for Political and Organizational Affairs, Nafie Ali Nafie and SPLM Secretary General Pagan Amoum, the two sides agreed upon the meeting agenda, which will focus on assessment of the progress of the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and the relations of the two parties to the agreement with the other political forces.
Nafie said in press statement that the meeting comes within the context of the efforts to activate the two parties, exchange of information about their structures and to discuss possibility of benefiting from the practical experiences of each of them.
He pointed out that the joint meeting of the NCP and SPLM leaderships comes within the framework of endeavours to bolster the joint relations and cooperation and to remove impediments in this connection.
Meanwhile, SPLM Secretary General said that his meeting with the NCP leadership, which represents the beginning of his political activity in Khartoum since the assumption of his post following the SPLM restructuring, came with the aim to discuss arrangements for the joint meeting.
Pagan expressed hopes that the meeting would contribute to removal of all obstacles that impede implementation of the CPA and solution of all issues of the country as well as strengthening of the relations between the two parties to consolidate peace and realize democratic transformation in the country.
He added that he would meet with the leaders of all political forces for formulation of common vision on peace and sustainable democratic transformation.
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