The U.S. has hosted an international gathering to reinvigorate Sudan’s North-South peace accord.
Washington — The United States Tuesday urged the government of Sudan and former rebels in the south to re-invigorate their 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), as 30 Sudanese political leaders met with 170 observers from 32 countries and international organizations here to discuss the faltering CPA, which expires in 2011.
"We are facing some very important milestones in the near future … they will set the foundation, for better or for worse, of the very future of Sudan," U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Jim Steinberg said in welcoming the delegates assembled at the Park Hyatt Hotel.
Delegations from Khartoum’s ruling National Congress Party (NCP) and the South’s Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) had held four days of talks here before Tuesday’s meeting, which focused on key obstacles – including border demarcation, the registration of millions of voters before next year’s national elections, and the sharing of oil revenues – to the CPA’s full implementation.
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