SPLM ministers in Sudan’s cabinet to be sworn in on 27 December
December 17, 2007 (KHARTOUM) — The Sudanese Presidency in a meeting held Monday evening agreed that the ministers Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) in the government of national unity will be sworn in on the next Thursday December 27.
The former rebel movement blamed its peace partner the National Congress Party (NCP) on the troops redeployment, demarcation of north-south border and Abyei.
In a meeting chaired by the President Omer al-Bashir and attended by his two deputies, Salva Kiir Mayadrit and Ali Osman Taha, it was decided that the national cabinet would hold an extra-ordinary meeting on the same day after the sworn in of the SPLM ministers.
On October 16, some days after the withdrawal of the SPLM ministers, al-Bashir reshuffled the SPLM ministers in the federal cabinet. However, Salva Kiir announced last week that he will reshuffle the appointed ministers. The definitive list of the 8 ministers and the 6 state ministers is not yet published.
The Presidential Press Secretary, Mahjoub Fadl Badri, said today that the meeting deliberated on the required arrangements to follow up the decisions and recommendations that were agreed upon during the previous meeting of the Presidency related to the progress of CPA implementation and the consolidation of the political partnership.
Badri further added that a report on the north-south border was also examined, the Presidency also listened to the committee that had ended its work in identifying maps and records. The committee will embark on drawing the maps after Eid Al-Adha holidays to prepare its report on the border line between the north and south so that the Presidency may adopt it, and so that the committee can embark on drawing the border on the ground according to the time tables agreed upon.
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