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Africa-Press – South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>South Sudan\u2019s President Salva Kiir Mayardit on Saturday called on the country\u2019s holdout opposition groups to drop their weapons and accept peaceful dialogue to achieve peace for the people of South Sudan.<\/p>\n

This comes after five opposition groups that are not signatories to the 2018 revitalized peace agreement called for a roundtable conference outside the country to decide the way forward as the transitional period ends with looming extension.<\/p>\n

In his statement marking the martyrs\u2019 day, Kiir stressed the need for the holdout groups to accept dialogue.<\/p>\n

\u201cI call upon our brothers and sisters in the holdout groups to accept dialogue as a way of honoring those who gave their lives for our country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet us embrace dialogue as the tool for resolving our differences, because it is the surest way to achieving rapid development in the country,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

In a statement, the Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO) welcomed the president\u2019s call for dialogue with holdout groups and said that call should be in line with the Rome peace talks.<\/p>\n

\u201cCEPO appreciates the president call for roundtable with the hold-out groups and this should in accordance to the Roma Peace Talks as a strategy of embrace inclusive political participation for transitioning the situation our country from violence to peace,\u201d said the statement signed by the Executive Director of CEPO Edmund Yakani.<\/p>\n

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