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Washington, DC - Delegations from north Sudan's National Congress Party, or NCP, and south Sudan's Sudan People's Liberation Movement, or SPLM, will meet here tomorrow at a conference organized by Special Envoy to Sudan.....
Major General Scott Gration to address disputes over the stalled implementation of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, or CPA. Save Darfur Coalition President Jerry Fowler, Enough Project Executive Director John Norris, and Genocide Intervention Network Executive Director Sam Bell issued the following statement:
"The Sudan advocacy community is encouraged by the U.S. government's initiative to bring together NCP and SPLM representatives to assess the status of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. For too long, the international community has been slow in responding to the sputtering pace of CPA implementation and the NCP's attempts to undermine the agreement. The conference shows a welcome renewed commitment from the United States to lead the international community in re-engaging with the CPA.
"We expect tomorrow's conference to address several issues that are critical to peace in Sudan. Parties to the CPA should also focus on long-term policy objectives that, after the referendum, will help prevent a violent collapse of the Sudanese state.
"In particular, we hope that the conference will make progress on the following:
Key unimplemented CPA provisions, including:
* Abyei: Abyei has been the site of multiple violations of the CPA-mandated ceasefire and is hotly contested.
* North/South border demarcation: Delayed demarcation of the border between northern and southern Sudan is further amplifying the pressures between the NCP and the SPLM. Decisions on the border are bound to provoke strong reactions, but are critical to the successful implementation of the CPA.
* Joint Integrated Units, or JIUs: Created by the CPA to encourage cooperation between the northern and southern armed forces, JIUs have been badly and belatedly implemented. In many cases, their presence has led to increased violence.
Ensuring elections in a safe environment without additional delays. Elections are not a silver bullet and will not guarantee democratic governance. However, they should be supported as an opportunity to press for greater political freedom and participation no matter the outcome. Specifically, the international community should push for revisions to key Sudanese legislation pertaining to elections, including the National Elections Act, Press and Media Law, and the National Security Act.
Negotiations between the NCP and SPLM on a long-term wealth sharing agreement. Discussions of access to land for populations with diverse needs and livelihoods and planning for mutually beneficial development of oilfields in the contested border region could ease tensions over border demarcation and generate momentum for further cooperation.
"CPA implementation should be reprioritized as part of a comprehensive approach to ending Sudan's conflicts. This approach must also recognize that Sudan's complex conflicts have a common core: flawed governance by a center that exploits and marginalizes an underdeveloped periphery.
"The successful implementation of the CPA is essential to achieving peace in Sudan, but it cannot stand alone. The original intent of this agreement was to provide a transformative framework for peace and democracy for all of Sudan. It is our hope that the revitalizing of the CPA at this conference will also bolster parallel efforts to reach a peaceful settlement in Darfur."
Source: http://www.enoughproject.org/news/joint-statement-obama-administrations-sudan-summit
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No father with sound mind and heart could sleep if his child has a pain. If that father sleep while child is in pain and that child get remedy from nieghbor, that is evil father.
Millions of Southerners were killed and if US did not intervene to enforce peace signed in 2005, Southern population could slowly got finished.
CPA was signed thank God who brought America. But again, four years pass and SPLM was not only completely failure in implementation of CAP, but SPLM had created mortal system of helping Northerners in killing Southerners. Fights between Southern tribes under the watch of SPLM happens daily. In addition, SPLM due to it incompetency has created other agenda which was not in CPA being now tabled in US conference tomorrow which is 'Census Results'.Why should dispute of census result as beauracratic work be discuss in US conference of June 23,2009? Where were SPLM commission when NCP conducted population counting? Yah they were drinking their looted public money around the world and now they become surprise of census result and hang it on CPA partners again. Shame on SPLM leaders.
Thank be to Clinton for appointing John Danforth who forced SPLM to sign CPA and thank be to Barak Obama for appointing his current envoy to Sudan who is taking both SPLM and NCP to US to give push to CPA. SPLM has showed its weakness to the world and Sudanese.
Agendas to US conference of June 23,2009 must be categorized into two as follow.
ONE: Problem on side of SPLM/GOSS that inflicted mortal suffering to Southerners. - Failure to of SPLM/GOSS to carry out Census.-Nepotism, corrutpion, tribalism, insecurity, political assassination, despotism and delay of border demarcation which are products of SPLM/GOSS management.
two: Abey dispute which I know it is in Huge.
These must be the agendas to the US conference rather than power sharing, Abey, border demarcation and sharing of wealth and asking donors to give more money to be looted again.