Ethiopia reiterates support for Sudan’s peace implementation

By Tesfa-alem Tekle

March 11, 2008 (ADDIS ABABA) — Ethiopian government renewed its full support for the full implementation of the 2005 peace deal that ended more than two decades of civil war in Sudan.

The British diplomat Sir Derek Plumbly, who is appointed last February as chairman of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission, is touring the neighbouring countries nowadays. He visited the Egyptian capital last week.

Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin on Tuesday told Sir Plumbly that Ethiopia would be working with the commission to enable it to succeed with its task of assessing and evaluating the implementation of the CPA.

Seyoum on the occasion said as IGAD member state and Sudan’s neighbor, Ethiopia would be committed, as it has always been, in joining the efforts of pertinent bodies that work toward helping the realization of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement of the Sudan.

Sir Plumbly is in Addis Ababa for talks with the African Union authorities and the Ethiopian government’s senior officials on ways that the comprehensive peace agreement would be implemented fully by all the parties involved.

The British diplomat told journalists after the talks that Foreign Minister Seyoum reassured of his government’s commitment to carry on with its support to efforts toward the realization of the agreement.

(ST)