Sudan is calling on the European Union as well as the members of the troika United Kingdom, the United States and Norway to provide support for the ongoing peace process in South Sudan, the Sudanese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Monday.
KHARTOUM (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 13th August, 2018) Sudan is calling on the European Union as well as the members of the troika United Kingdom, the United States and Norway to provide support for the ongoing peace process in South Sudan, the Sudanese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Monday.
The third round of peace talks between South Sudan's warring sides started earlier in the day in Sudanese capital Khartoum. The latest round, mediated by the troika, will reportedly last for a week.
According to the statement obtained by Sputnik, Sudanese Foreign Minister Dirdiri Mohamed Ahmed met earlier on Monday with the ambassadors of the troika countries and the European Union. The Sudanese minister called on "the international community to provide support and assistance to the peace process [in South Sudan] and called on the troika countries in particular to provide direct assistance to the peace deal."
On August 5, South Sudan's President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar signed a final power-sharing deal in Khartoum to end the conflict ongoing since 2013. The peace deal follows a ceasefire agreement signed by the sides in Khartoum in late June.
South Sudan gained independence from Sudan following a referendum in 2011, in which majority of the voters supported the move. In 2013, a civil war erupted in the country, as Kiir of the Dinka tribe accused Machar, an ethnic Nuer, of planning a coup.
