President Salva Kiir confirms to the public that the government accepted the hundred day’s extension of the pre-transitional period to resolve the outstanding issues on the security arrangements and number of states and boundaries.
He says during the 100-day extension might be reduced or increased as it was proposed on the outstanding critical security and the 100-day might be 50 days.
“In my address to the Catholic Church in Rejaf Parish during its centenary on the 1st of November 2019, I promised that I will never return South Sudan back to war”, Kiir admits.
The president explains that it was not possible for the government to pay the balance of the hundred million dollars to the security arrangements which became the point of the SPLM/A-IO.
He says that the public might not be assured of the 100-day extension.
The SPLM/A-IO leaders’ external security protection is agreed by the government and other leaders that are not confident, President Kiir discloses.
“I want to assure you, we will raise the other part of the 100 million that the government has pledged”, he affirms.
The President was addressing the media at Juba airport after arrival from Uganda meeting with the SPLM/A-IO leader Dr Riek Machar.
Meanwhile Troika countries on Friday welcomed the fact that President Kiir and Dr Machar’s face-to-face meeting on outstanding issues.
We recognize the region’s leadership, and welcome IGAD’s initiative to bring all the parties back together in Addis, they stress.
It is important that these meetings provide the clarity necessary to allow people across the country to retain confidence in this process, say Troika.
They call on IGAD to regularize the status of Dr Machar to facilitate greater progress.