Latest: Machar demands UN Protection as prerequisite for participating in unity government
South Sudan’s main armed opposition leader, Dr. Riek Machar Teny (Photo: Supplied)
January 17th, 2020 (SSNN)—The leadership of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-IO has proposed the deployment of the United Nations Regional Protection forces in the capital, Juba as a prerequisite for participating in the formation of a transitional government of national unity, an opposition official said on Friday.
Addressing the press in Juba, the SPLM-IO Chairperson of National Committee for Security and Defense, Angelina Teny said the proposed deployment of the Regional Protection Forces (RPF) would definitely serve as an alternative approach to ending the stalemate over the current outstanding issues.
“We recognize the delay that is why we came up with this roadmap where we say we need to sit down and look at the deployment of UNMISS in some areas until such a time that we can deliver the unified forces for the delivery of the security services,” Angelina disclosed.
In order to give an added impetus to the urgent implementation of the peace agreement, the opposition official said that the leadership of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement – IO decided to take risks and in the hope that the new proposal would lead to the formation of a unity government.
“So we are taking a very big risk but in the interest of moving forward, we came up with that proposal and we hope that the government and the Special Envoys and IGAD would see this as the spirit of compromise to allow and enable the formation of the government not to extend it again,” she said.
The new demand is similar to the proposal proposed in 2016 regarding the deployment of a 4,000-strong United Nations force that was subsequently approved by the UN Security Council.
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