US proposes changes to North-South peace agreement in Sudan
By Wasil Ali
November 8, 2007 (WASHINGTON) — The US administration proposed revisions to the terms of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended 21 years of civil war in Sudan, according to a US press report.
The Washington Post revealed that the US special envoy to Sudan Andrew Natsios was pushing officials from the Southern ex-rebel group Sudan People Liberation Movement (SPLM) to accept the plan.
Sudan’s First Vice-President and President of the Government of South Sudan Salva Kiir Mayardit met yesterday with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Washington to discuss the progress of the CPA implementation.
On October 11th the SPLM decided to suspend their participation in the national unity government because of what they describe as the NCP’s failure to fully implement crucial elements of the CPA.
The latest move by the SPLM raised concern that the Comprehensive peace agreement (CPA) that ended two decades of civil war between the Arab and Muslim-dominated north and the mainly Christian and animist black southerners may unravel.
According to the Washington Post Natsios’s proposals were on the agenda of the meeting between Kiir and Rice.
However Kiir said in an interview last Wednesday that he doesn’t agree with the plan suggesting that this will open up the accord to renegotiation.
The spokesman for the US State department Sean McCormack acknowledged the existence of the proposals saying they were related to the implementation of the CPA to “bridge differences between the government in Khartoum and the government in the South”.
However McCormack said that Kiir expressed to Rice his satisfaction with the agreement reached with the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) last week to resolve the outstanding issues in the CPA.
This week a joint committee from the SPLM and NCP began meetings aimed at finalizing a deal to break the deadlock between the two sides.
McCormack said that based on Kiir’s assessment to the CPA implementation, Natsios’s proposals are “no longer relevant, because they’ve [SPLM & NCP] actually moved beyond it”.
The 2005 peace agreement brokered by the US and other western countries ended two decades of civil war between the Arab and Muslim-dominated north and the mainly Christian and animist black southerners.
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Manyang
US proposes changes to North-South peace agreement in Sudan
I personally welcome and appreciated the proposal initiated by the US Administration. Although the proposal won’t largely change what is in the the CPA signed but should explore and find the permanent solutions to iron out the contentious issues which are loosely hanging over our heads like a time bomb waiting to burst. What Bashir did in the CPA with the recent effect (call) where the SPLM pulled out from the GoNU is just a drop of water in the ocean.To me CPA is the only window opportunity that will bring and enhance lasting peace in Sudan and thus must be taken care of by all parties concerned.
However, i wanted to inform the US administration and the world at large that CPA according to President Al Bashir won’t be implemented because he believes that CPA was signed against his will and he has nothing to do with it. What a hell! Bashir is type of a person that doesn’t live upto what he says and mark my word clearly, unless this tyrant regime is removed there will be no peace and tranquility in Sudan.
M.Rwei Gach
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South SUDAN
Juach D Juach
US proposes changes to North-South peace agreement in Sudan
The same mistake done by the British in the mid twentieth century is happening a century later under Bush administration!.
Why on earh can we renegotiate a deal of which is win win to both parties? Ok, some might say it’s not a win win but atleast is much better than what ever we have known…….
vasco Mundrugo
US proposes changes to North-South peace agreement in Sudan
Dear All,
We should begin realising that listening to some of the advice from the out side administrations,is like thrawing dush mixed with red peper into the eyes of southern sudanese.So there you are, the politicians of southern sudan and to whom the future of this peace belongs to .
Thanks
Vasco mundrugo
Juba-South sudan