The Metropolitan Archbishop of Juba calls on the parties in the revitalised peace agreement to study their failure and keep on the implementation of the deal.
Archbishop Paolino Lukudu Loro in a statement on Tuesday called on President Salva Kiir and Dr Riek Machar to humble themselves for the coming IGAD meeting after Pope Francis knelt and kissed their feet.
He calls on the parties to refrain from mobilizing, recruiting and training soldiers or militias and maintain open channels of communication with other stakeholders and parties that did not sign the agreement.
The Catholic prelate calls on Troika and IGAD, AU guarantors to the agreement and the international community to save the situation before the parties go back to fight.
IGAD should urgently assess the revitalised peace agreement’s matrix in its summit of the Head of States, Archbishop Lukudu appeals.
The Archbishop statement is a follow up to Vatican spiritual retreat and implementation of the Revitalised Peace Agreement signed on September 12, 2018.
IGAD Special Envoy to South Sudan Ismail Wais asked the parties in the agreement to attend a meeting on May 2 and 3 to attain a consensus on the formation of the new government expected on May 12, as scheduled in the deal.