Tumaini Initiative to renew on Dec 2 as govt group in Nairobi: Kuol Manyang

Author: Emmanuel J. Akile | Published: 32 minutes in the past

Gen. Kuol Manyang Juuk, one of many Deputy Chairpersons of SPLM and Senior Presidential Advisor – Credit: Office of the President – August 31, 2022

The head of presidency delegation to the Tumaini Initiative, Kuol Manyang, has confirmed that the Kenya-mediated South Sudan peace negotiations will resume on December 2, with events delivering their opening addresses.

On Thursday, the newly reconstituted 15-member authorities delegation arrived in Kenya to revive the shaky peace course of with the hope of reaching a deal in lower than two weeks.

Prior to the delegation’s journey to Nairobi, President Salva Kiir urged the group to interact and dialogue with the non-signatories and guarantee a breakthrough within the talks to consolidate lasting peace within the nation.

Kuol Manyang Juuk – senior presidential advisor – stated the talks will start with opening remarks by mediators, authorities delegation and the opposition maintain out teams.

Kuol reiterated authorities’s dedication within the peace course of.

“We expect the meeting to start on Monday. It will the opening address and the other program will be done of course by the parties; the holdout groups, the members of the transitional government and then the mediators,” Manyang stated in an interview with Eye Radio.

“So, we will wait to see what will be in agenda, it cannot be decided by one party. Until when we meet, because that was my own assessment [the earlier statement of talks to take only ten day].”

“The reality when we meet and put forward the items to be discussed, it what will determined how long it is going to take.”

Kuol Manyang additional narrated that the initialed protocols within the Tumaini Initiative will likely be revisited and a few will likely be eliminated as a result of they’re already within the 2018 peace settlement.

“The protocols will be revisited because we want to remove some of the protocols, they were drawn from the revitalize agreement, and they don’t need to be in the main document of the Tumaini.”

“Tumaini is going to be an annex to the to the R-ARCSS, so there will be no need for these protocols to be taken from there to R-ARCSS. What is missing, the Tumaini is supposed to be a complementary to R-ARCSS, Tumaini is not the main document, the main document is the R-ARCSS.”

“So, we will try to take some of these back to R-ARCSS and then the Tumaini will be addressing issues that were not addressed there.”