South Sudan tells donors 25% of peace deal not implemented
May 5, 2008 (OSLO) — Southern Sudanese minister for Presidential Affairs told the donor meeting today in Oslo that 25% of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement are not implemented.
The two-day conference is part of a series of donor nation meetings that began in Oslo in 2005, just after the signing of the CPA which ended fighting that cost 2 million lives, many from famine and disease.
Luka Biong stressed in his speech on the slow implementation of the CPA. 25% of the elements in the agreement are not in place, he said. He further said “in Abyei just 35% of the CPA has been implemented.”
On 11 October, the SPLM suspended its participation in the government of national unity to protest against the delay in the implementation of the CPA. The former rebel movement blamed its peace partner the National Congress Party (NCP) on the troops redeployment, demarcation of north-south border and Abyei.
Further Biong expressed worries for the slow implementations in Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile.
“The implementation of the protocols for these areas will be a litmus test for the overall implementation of the CPA in the other war affected areas of the Sudan.” He said.
Biong warned that if the CPA implementation “fails to provide a meaningful self-rule in Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile, then the chance that war will erupt again is most likely in these transitional areas.”
According to the protocols related to these regions, signed in May 2004, the Nuba Mountains and Southern Blue Nile will each have their own government headed by a governor directly appointed by registered voters after 2009 elections.
The Sudan Consortium, as the donors group is called, is chaired by the Sudan Government of National Unity, the Government of Southern Sudan and the Norwegian organizers, the World Bank and the U.N.
Norway and the European Union on Tuesday pledged $935 million in aid to Sudan over the next four years.
Conference host Norway pledged $500 million between 2008-2011 to help Africa’s largest nation recover from 21 years of internal warfare. The E.U. immediately followed up with a promise of $435 million in the same period.
Norway helped broker the 2005 peace accord, with northern and southern Sudan are in an interim peace period due to end with a 2011 referendum on whether the south will secede.
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Daniel Kalaka
South Sudan tells donors 25% of peace deal not implemented
Indigenous peoples have an important role to play in the global response to climate change, given their knowledge and experience with impacts of the phenomenon, and should be included in the international debate on the issue, a United Nations gathering on indigenous affairs concluded.
Climate change was the special focus of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, which wrapped up its seventh session in New York on 2 May.
In one of nine texts approved by the 16-member body, a subsidiary of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the Forum recommended that the international community take serious measures to mitigate climate change, as the survival of the traditional ways of life of indigenous peoples depended in large part on the success of those efforts.
The Forum stressed that indigenous peoples’ traditional livelihoods and ecological knowledge can significantly contribute to designing and implementing appropriate and sustainable mitigation and adaptation measures.
In addition, it recommended that the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and relevant parties develop mechanisms to allow the participation of indigenous peoples in the global debate on the issue, particularly the forthcoming negotiations on a new global climate change agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol – set to expire in 2012.
A working group on local adaptation measures and traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples should be established, the Forum added.
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, the Forum’s Chairperson, noted that although indigenous peoples were among those most directly affected by climate change, they had largely been kept out of the international dialogue on the issue despite their historical role in resisting oil, gas and coal exploitation and their practice of using their lands, air and forests in sustainable ways, not in pursuit of “giant profits.”
She added that in moving forward, corporations, as well as States, must be guided by the standards set out in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Adopted by the General Assembly last September, the document sets out the rights of the world’s estimated 370 million indigenous people to culture, identity, language, employment, health, education and other issues, and outlaws discrimination against them.
The Forum, which drew the participation of some 3,300 delegates from around the world, also addressed issues such as indigenous peoples in the Pacific region and indigenous languages during its just concluded session
Jonglei-watchdog
South Sudan tells donors 25% of peace deal not implemented
Dear Government of Southern Suda’;
Peace implementation is what every one of us want to see rolling on its speedy and smoothest paper it was signed on. As low standard people in the long time mirginalized region of Southern Sudan, it is always our demand to the see the government of Southern Sudan doing more than enough claiming the peace implemetation.
Before doing this you must be sure also of corruption amidst you in the government Southern Sudan so that those you appeal for help will be ready to issue what ever they have in good heart that lack doubts.
Congratulation for yopur appeal to the donor team Mr. Luka. I wish you a possitive reply from them.
Thanks
Jonglei real watch dog.
Chameleon Chameleon
South Sudan tells donors 25% of peace deal not implemented
Thanks Dr. Biong for revealing the truth to the world so that the world leaders who witnessed Omar El Beshir when he signed the lasting peace CPA will know the truth and where he also has been up to in term of CPA implemetation. In fact, the leadership of omar Al Beshir and his party NCP will never forget Sudanese at large and particuarly Southerners who always discriminated and mistreated unfairly in their mother land. In other words, Southerners have one more chance if they lose 2009 election otherwise their right of self-determination is 50% predictable lost. It is our obligation now to consider our values and what we are going to do in order to get rid of this mistreatment.