SPLM-IO youth welcome outcome of presidency meeting

June 4, 2016 (JUBA) – Members of South Sudan’s armed opposition (SPLM-IO) youth league have welcomed the outcome of Friday’s meeting at the presidency, which saw several of the outstanding issues on the peace implementation amicably resolved.

Puot Kang, the chairman of youth wing told said the meeting attended by South Sudanese President Salva Kiir, his first vice president Riek Machar and vice president Wani Igga was an important step towards peace and stability.

The outcome of the meeting, he said, would accelerate operationalisation and resolve the contiguous issues on resolution of conflicts in the world’s youngest nation.

Numerous issues, including the transitional national legislative formation, nomination of 19 presidential advisors, the vacant seats in parliament, additional appointments of 10 other MPs by the president, reinstatement of all civil servants, national reconciliation and healing commission, independent commissions and institutions to be reconstituted based on power sharing ratio and the operationalisation of South Sudan and Sudan cooperation Agreement of September 2012, were issued discussed.

The three leaders, Kang said, agreed to resolve the selection of a speaker with invitation of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) peace mediators in the process of speakers’ nomination, in accordance to the August 2015 peace agreement.

“The SPLM youth league is encouraging the presidency to continue with the same spirit in order to sustain the lasting peace to the people of south Sudan which they deserve and through addressing other pending issues,” he stressed.

(ST)