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FILE PHOTO: Gen. Kuol Manyang Juuk, one of the Deputy Chairpersons of SPLM and Senior Presidential Advisor - Credit: Office of the President - January 5, 2024
The team leader of the government delegation to the Tumaini Initiative has told the Norwegian Ambassador to South Sudan that the delegation will leave for Nairobi, Kenya this weekend to resume the talks next week.
Kuol Manyang Juuk disclosed this after a meeting with the Norwegian Ambassador to South Sudan in Juba on Wednesday.
“He inquired about the progress of the Tumaini peace agreement, we are going to Nairobi on the 18th of this month to continue with the peace talks, and we hope that we will reach an agreement”, said Juuk while speaking to the state-owned TV, SSBC.
General Juuk hopes that the parties will reach a consensus that will bring all South Sudanese together for nation building.
“What we need is our brothers and sisters who are there, they join, they come to the country so that we come and build the country together. There are many rooms in South Sudan where anybody can fit in and contribute in national building.”
General Juuk who got appointed to the National Transitional Committee as the chairperson also hinted plans for 2026 elections preparedness and expressed the government’s readiness to allow the international community to observe the polling processes for a peaceful democratic exercise.
Meanwhile, the Norwegian ambassador to South Sudan said his country strongly supports the Nairobi-peace process.
Roar Haugsdal – who met with Kuol Manyang Juuk yesterday – also said he highlighted the necessity for early preparations for elections.
He emphasized the importance of 2018 revitalized peace agreement implementation in the country.
“I met with Hon. Presidential advisor Kuol Manyang, we discussed the Tumaini peace talks in Nairobi which Norway strongly supports, and also the necessity to implement the R-ARCSS. We highlighted the importance of holding elections and making necessary preparations.”
In June last year, the Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs urged both the transitional government and holdout groups not to use the Nairobi peace process to sideline the implementation of the 2018 agreement.
Espen Barth Eide made the remarks in a visit to the Tumaini Initiative in Kenya, where he met the South Sudanese peace parties.
He applauded the decision to bring hold out groups on board, but added that he hopes it is not a process to make another agreement.
Barth emphasized that the 2018 peace accord is the most important agreement, of which if implemented, can lead the country to stability and prosperity.
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