Last month, a summit of IGAD heads of States and Government decided to convene a meeting of the signatories of the South Sudan peace agreement to discuss ways to revitalize the implementation.
The summit decided that the meeting will include all the groups to discuss concrete measures to restore permanent ceasefire. In a communique issued on Tuesday, the IGAD Council of Ministers called on the parties to the peace agreement, to seize this opportunity to revitalize the deal, renounce violence, to develop and submit concrete proposal.
Community Empowerment for Progress Organization has welcomed the IGAD council of Ministers’ decision as it urged the South Sudan conflicting parties to speedily take strong stand for following the pathway for non-violent approach for resolving their political difference.
Mr. Edmund Yakani, Executive Director of CEPO said non violent pathway for resolving political difference in South Sudan should be the best approach and it should be embraced by both the country’s conflicting parties
“Taking the violent approach for resolving political difference is unacceptable because it is destructive to both human lives and properties”
Edmund further expressed that resolving political differences amicably should be adopted and should remain a culture for championing democratization in South Sudan by the political movement elites
