The SPLM has formed three committees to study the compromise agreement proposed by the mediators under the new initiative known as IGAD -Plus.

They started their work today and will present their findings and recommendations on Friday.

On Tuesday, US President Barrack Obama said President Salva Kiir and Dr. Riek Machar must sign a peace deal next month.

He said the international community would raise the cost of the actions of the two leaders if they failed to sign a peace deal.

The two warring parties are expected to meet in Addis Ababa in the first week of August to continue negotiating for an end to the violence.

In the document, the power sharing in the national executive would be 53% of ministerial positions for the government, 33% for the opposition faction of the Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement (SPLM-IO), 7% for former detainees and 7% for other political parties.

The spokesman of the government delegation to the peace talks, Michael Makuei, says the SPLM meeting in Juba today discussed the proposed peace agreement.

Mr Makuei told reporters that the party is yet to make a final decision on the proposal.

“[The committees] are expected to complete [the] task within today [Wednesday] and tomorrow so that by Friday, they will report to the plenary on their recommendations and findings”.

The three committees are: committee on governance headed by Mr Makuei himself, committee on economic issues headed by Awut Deng and the committee on permanent ceasefire and security arrangements headed by Peter Bashir, deputy minister of foreign affairs.