The Spokesperson of the Ugandan forces, Major Paddy Ankunda says they are yet to receive instructions to withdraw from South Sudan.
The UPDF forces were deployed in the country in December 2013, after the outbreak of the conflict between the government and the opposition.
Last week, the SPLA Deputy Chief-of-Staff for Logistics, Lt. General Malek Ruben said they would start leaving the country this Sunday.
He said this was resolved in a seven-day security workshop which ended last week in Addis Ababa, as a provision of the recent peace deal.
He said the forces are waiting for their matching-instructions.
“We have no instructions to withdraw. So, it is a non-starter. And that’s all I can say. We have no instructions to pull out at the moment,” UPDF Spokesperson Major Ankunda told Eye Radio via phone from Kampala.
However, according to the government, the withdrawal process will not affect the UPDF troops deployed in Western Equatoria.
It says those were deployed in South Sudan in a joint force with a different mandate to pursue the Lord’s Resistance Army, LRA, led by Joseph Kony.