Africa-Press – South-Sudan. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has insisted that South Sudan’s First Vice President and opposition Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) Dr. Riek Machar Teny will attend the Uganda retreat set for first week of March in which he and President Kiir will discuss peace stalemate.
This is a defiant position as President Salva Kiir Mayardit has reportedly asked Museveni to only led Machar send a delegation to represent him in the important peace gathering that will determine the controversy over if the elections slated for end of the transitional period will be conducted in 2023.
On February 27, a senior presidency official said President Salva does not want Machar to leave the country and has asked Uganda to only let Machar chose a delegation to represent him at the important meeting prompting Ugandan authorities to postpone the meeting which was otherwise supposed to take place this February.
“The meeting was supposed to take place this January, but the president has asked Ugandan authorities that Machar should be allowed personally to travel to Uganda given the policy of the government to keep Machar in the country until when the transitional period ended with the conduct of elections,” the official who wanted not to be named said.
But the office of the First Vice President has said that it has received an invitation from the Ugandan President for the talk which they have been told will take place at the beginning of March to discuss the entire implementation process of the revitalized peace agreement Kiir and Machar signed in 2018.
“We have received an invitation from one of the grantors, which is Uganda, to be part of the retreat in Uganda the first week of March,” SPLM-IO Director of Information and Press Secretary in the office of the First Vice President said, according to the Juba-based Eye Radio.
“The agenda is the evaluation of the implementation of the peace agreement and on how to develop way forwards on the outstanding issues on the agreement,” the senior opposition official added.
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