The President of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereignty Council, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan, arrived in Juba on Thursday evening to assess the progress in the implementation of the 2018 revitalized peace agreement.
The Sudanese leader was received by President Salva Kiir and a host of his cabinet ministers. Sudan and Uganda are the two guarantors of South Sudan’s peace agreement.
Addressing journalists at the Juba International Airport during the reception, presidential press secretary Ateny Wek Ateny said Gen. Al-Burhan was in Juba to acquaint himself with the progress of the peace agreement.
“President Salva Kiir Mayardit, together with a high-level delegation turned up at Juba International Airport this (Thursday) evening to receive the visiting president, His Excellency, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan of the Sudan who stopped over in Juba to acquaint himself with the progress made so far in regards to the revitalized peace agreement,” Ateny said.
He added: “He wanted to understand exactly where the parties have gone well and where the parties are actually stuck and if necessary if Sudan can accord help to ensure the implementation of the peace agreement is done amicably.”
Ateny also hinted that the Sudanese leader will on Friday discuss the Kampala retreat between President Kiir and First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar which was postponed. A new date and the venue for the retreat are yet to be communicated.
South Sudan’s peace agreement is lagging behind schedule with the unification and graduation of the armed forces not yet completed. The transitional justice and hybrid court stipulated in Chapter 5 of the peace agreement have also not been actualized.