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    On South Sudan, Kiir's Reservations Would Delete Groups' Disarmament, Follow the Money By Matthew Russell Lee, Exclusive series UNITED NATIONS, August 26 -- After the South Sudan peace agreement was signed by President Salva Kiir, saying that he had reservations, there has been a lot of vague talk about these reservations, with the US "not recognizing" them, some saying they've seen them but not publishing, and others saying wait and see. Now it's time to see: Inner City Press is publishing the 12 page docuemnt, here, just as Inner City Press earlier put online the August 17 Compromise Agreement, as first obtained, here. The 12-page reservation document says to delete the provision about disarming Darfur based armed groups including JEM, SLA-Minnawi, SLA-Abdulwahid, as well as the SPLM-North. It resists calling the Army the NDFSS and referring to the "Armed Opposition" instead of the SPLM/A-IO. It says the National Army will remain inside its headquarters, and would delete Juba from the list of cantonment areas. It says there is a need to reconstitute the Monitoring and Verification Mechanism. It says to limit the JMEC and delete the word "oversee" throughout. The article on reparation and compensation is to be removed. Who would be vice president(s) would be up to Kiir: no reward for rebellion, or "gambling" on who ministers will be. The rebels should not be governors in Unity, Jonglei and Upper Nile State. Power sharing should be 70-20, not 46-40. Funds should be with the Minister of Finance. As always, follow the money -- Inner City Press would add, to Kenya Commercial Bank and beyond. We'll have more on this. Before Kiir signed, Uganda's Yoweri Museveni advised him to get the UN out of the country, saying having the UN is is a sign of weakness and that the UN preserves terrorism. Past 5 pm New York time on August 26, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon offered praise for Kiir signing, saying nothing of the reservation or of the UN being openly trashed by Museveni. It is to Museveni that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has been deferring on Burundi, still not having named a UN envoy as the UN Security Council called "imminent" two weeks ago. (Ban was in France on August 26, praising the country's ambassadorial corps without a single mention of French troops' alleged rape of children in the Central African Republic, covered up by Ban's (French) head of UN Peacekeeping, Herve Ladsous.) In fairness to Museveni, his reference may have been in part to Ladsous' MONUSCO failing to act on armed groups in Eastern Congo -- including the FDLR, which also impinges on Burundi. We'll have more on this. Here was Ban's August 26 statement: "The Secretary-General welcomes the signature today by President Salva Kiir of the Agreement on the resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan. This is a critical and necessary step towards ending the 20 month-long conflict that has devastated South Sudan and subjected its people to unspeakable suffering." full statement here. In front of the Security Council on August 26, there was loose talk about Kiir signing; an African diplomat told Inner City Press, "He signed! He was obliged!" with no mention of the reservations. The UN had no noon briefing -- it said it woul only have one if something important happened, this was apparently not important - here are answers from August 24 and August 25, Inner City Press' South Sudan questions have been not been answered. On August 25, Ellen Loj, the head of the UN Mission in the country UNMISS told the UN Security Council that Kiir is expected to sign the agreement on August 26. Inner City Press asked, how might that impact the pending draft resolution on sanctions and an arms embargo? After consultations on August 25, Security Council President for August Joy Ogwu of Nigeria emerged with Elements to the Press including: “The Council members expressed concern on the deteriorating

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    On South Sudan, Kiir's Reservations Would Delete Groups' Disarmament, Follow the Money By Matthew Russell Lee, Exclusive series UNITED NATIONS, August 26 -- After the South Sudan peace agreement was signed by President Salva Kiir, saying that he had reservations, there has been a lot of vague talk about these reservations, with the US "not recognizing" them, some saying they've seen them but not publishing, and others saying wait and see. Now it's time to see: Inner City Press is publishing the 12 page docuemnt, here, just as Inner City Press earlier put online the August 17 Compromise Agreement, as first obtained, here. The 12-page reservation document says to delete the provision about disarming Darfur based armed groups including JEM, SLA-Minnawi, SLA-Abdulwahid, as well as the SPLM-North. It resists calling the Army the NDFSS and referring to the "Armed Opposition" instead of the SPLM/A-IO. It says the National Army will remain inside its headquarters, and would delete Juba from the list of cantonment areas. It says there is a need to reconstitute the Monitoring and Verification Mechanism. It says to limit the JMEC and delete the word "oversee" throughout. The article on reparation and compensation is to be removed. Who would be vice president(s) would be up to Kiir: no reward for rebellion, or "gambling" on who ministers will be. The rebels should not be governors in Unity, Jonglei and Upper Nile State. Power sharing should be 70-20, not 46-40. Funds should be with the Minister of Finance. As always, follow the money -- Inner City Press would add, to Kenya Commercial Bank and beyond. We'll have more on this. Before Kiir signed, Uganda's Yoweri Museveni advised him to get the UN out of the country, saying having the UN is is a sign of weakness and that the UN preserves terrorism. Past 5 pm New York time on August 26, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon offered praise for Kiir signing, saying nothing of the reservation or of the UN being openly trashed by Museveni. It is to Museveni that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has been deferring on Burundi, still not having named a UN envoy as the UN Security Council called "imminent" two weeks ago. (Ban was in France on August 26, praising the country's ambassadorial corps without a single mention of French troops' alleged rape of children in the Central African Republic, covered up by Ban's (French) head of UN Peacekeeping, Herve Ladsous.) In fairness to Museveni, his reference may have been in part to Ladsous' MONUSCO failing to act on armed groups in Eastern Congo -- including the FDLR, which also impinges on Burundi. We'll have more on this. Here was Ban's August 26 statement: "The Secretary-General welcomes the signature today by President Salva Kiir of the Agreement on the resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan. This is a critical and necessary step towards ending the 20 month-long conflict that has devastated South Sudan and subjected its people to unspeakable suffering." full statement here. In front of the Security Council on August 26, there was loose talk about Kiir signing; an African diplomat told Inner City Press, "He signed! He was obliged!" with no mention of the reservations. The UN had no noon briefing -- it said it woul only have one if something important happened, this was apparently not important - here are answers from August 24 and August 25, Inner City Press' South Sudan questions have been not been answered. On August 25, Ellen Loj, the head of the UN Mission in the country UNMISS told the UN Security Council that Kiir is expected to sign the agreement on August 26. Inner City Press asked, how might that impact the pending draft resolution on sanctions and an arms embargo? After consultations on August 25, Security Council President for August Joy Ogwu of Nigeria emerged with Elements to the Press including: “The Council members expressed concern on the deteriorating

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    On South Sudan, Kiir's Reservations Would Delete Groups' Disarmament, Follow the Money By Matthew Russell Lee, Exclusive series UNITED NATIONS, August 26 -- After the South Sudan peace agreement was signed by President Salva Kiir, saying that he had reservations, there has been a lot of vague talk about these reservations, with the US "not recognizing" them, some saying they've seen them but not publishing, and others saying wait and see. Now it's time to see: Inner City Press is publishing the 12 page docuemnt, here, just as Inner City Press earlier put online the August 17 Compromise Agreement, as first obtained, here. The 12-page reservation document says to delete the provision about disarming Darfur based armed groups including JEM, SLA-Minnawi, SLA-Abdulwahid, as well as the SPLM-North. It resists calling the Army the NDFSS and referring to the "Armed Opposition" instead of the SPLM/A-IO. It says the National Army will remain inside its headquarters, and would delete Juba from the list of cantonment areas. It says there is a need to reconstitute the Monitoring and Verification Mechanism. It says to limit the JMEC and delete the word "oversee" throughout. The article on reparation and compensation is to be removed. Who would be vice president(s) would be up to Kiir: no reward for rebellion, or "gambling" on who ministers will be. The rebels should not be governors in Unity, Jonglei and Upper Nile State. Power sharing should be 70-20, not 46-40. Funds should be with the Minister of Finance. As always, follow the money -- Inner City Press would add, to Kenya Commercial Bank and beyond. We'll have more on this. Before Kiir signed, Uganda's Yoweri Museveni advised him to get the UN out of the country, saying having the UN is is a sign of weakness and that the UN preserves terrorism. Past 5 pm New York time on August 26, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon offered praise for Kiir signing, saying nothing of the reservation or of the UN being openly trashed by Museveni. It is to Museveni that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has been deferring on Burundi, still not having named a UN envoy as the UN Security Council called "imminent" two weeks ago. (Ban was in France on August 26, praising the country's ambassadorial corps without a single mention of French troops' alleged rape of children in the Central African Republic, covered up by Ban's (French) head of UN Peacekeeping, Herve Ladsous.) In fairness to Museveni, his reference may have been in part to Ladsous' MONUSCO failing to act on armed groups in Eastern Congo -- including the FDLR, which also impinges on Burundi. We'll have more on this. Here was Ban's August 26 statement: "The Secretary-General welcomes the signature today by President Salva Kiir of the Agreement on the resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan. This is a critical and necessary step towards ending the 20 month-long conflict that has devastated South Sudan and subjected its people to unspeakable suffering." full statement here. In front of the Security Council on August 26, there was loose talk about Kiir signing; an African diplomat told Inner City Press, "He signed! He was obliged!" with no mention of the reservations. The UN had no noon briefing -- it said it woul only have one if something important happened, this was apparently not important - here are answers from August 24 and August 25, Inner City Press' South Sudan questions have been not been answered. On August 25, Ellen Loj, the head of the UN Mission in the country UNMISS told the UN Security Council that Kiir is expected to sign the agreement on August 26. Inner City Press asked, how might that impact the pending draft resolution on sanctions and an arms embargo? After consultations on August 25, Security Council President for August Joy Ogwu of Nigeria emerged with Elements to the Press including: “The Council members expressed concern on the deteriorating

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    THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH SUDAN The Government of the Republic of South Sudan The Reservations of the Government of the Republic of South Sudan, on the “Compromise Peace Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan”, Juba, 26 August 2015. Reservations of the Government on ‘the 1GAD-Plus'Proposal for the resolution of the Crisis in South Sudan’ 1a 12 13 The Preambie Cognizantof the agreementreached between the parties to the conflict in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, in which the two parties agreed on many issues related to the conflict, which issues were unfortunately left out from the proposed Compromise Agreement by the IGAD Mediation Team; Recalling the letter of H.E. President SalvaKiirMayardit of 3 August, 2015, addressed to H.E. Prime Minister HailemariamDessalegn copied to all the IGAD Heads of State and Government conveying the Reservations of HE on the Compromise Agreement on the conflict in the Republic of South Sudan; Rememberingthat the decisions of IGAD Heads of Stateand Governmentrecently taken in Kampala, Uganda, with a view to incorporatingthem into the Compromise Agreement were deliberately ignored and excluded by the IGAD Mediators; 1.4 Mindful ofthe note of the Government of South Sudan, signed by its Chief Negotiator, to the IGAD Mediators on 17% August, 2015, on the intention of the Government of the Republic of South Sudan to consult and return to the IGAD Mediators for further negotiations prior to the eventual finalization of the Agreement within fifteen days; 4.5 Aware that the SPLM/A-IO rebel Movement sustained a major split in which senior officers denounced and disowned the Jeadership of Dr. RickMachar on 11%August, 2015, supported by a group of politicians previously loyal to the rebel leader; 1.6 Fully informed of the determination of the splinter rebel group to fight a, Res oth the government of the Republic of South Sudan and small faction under the ousted rebel leader as well as their desire to partake in the IGAD-led peace talks; 7 Now present sixteen (16)preliminaryreservations (Tables 1-9) of the Government of the Republic of South Sudan, based on the positions taken by the Government of the Republic of South Sudan, the governors of the ten states, the political parties, the general public and the civil society organizations. In this regard, the government is yet to consult and solicit the views of the Army, the National Security and the other Organized Forces, members of the National Legislature and the traditional leaders. servations of the government on the IGAD-Plus Prpposal for the resolution ofthe Crisis in South 2 Sudan 2. The Government of the Rep following observations: 24 2.2 2.3 2.4 25 2.6 Reservations of t ‘The Title of President Salva Kiir Mayardit has been wrongly written as ‘President of the Republic of South Sudan and Commander in Chief of the NDFSS instead of Commander in Chicf of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA). The NDFSS is hitherto unknown to the government and people of the Republic of South Sudan. ‘The Compromise Peace Agreement makes reference to ‘South Sudan ‘Armed Opposition’, an organizationwhichis unrelated to the failed Coup of 15tDecember, 2013.The government, therefore, underlines that the conflict in South Sudan is between the government of South Sudan and the SPLM/A-IO and not what the IGAD Mediators call South Sudan’ ‘Armed Opposition; ‘The Compromise Agreement document was unilaterally amended by some individuals and signed unceremoniously behind doors. Signing agreement is normally conducted in public and beforethe media. The guarantors and witnesses to the Compromise Agreement are supposedto sign after the parties to the conflict and not before. Most of the stakeholders were made to signthe document without reading the details and on realizing their mistake, declined to append their initialsonthe remainder of the document. The guarantors, the IGAD-led Mediation and the International Partners as witnesses initially declined to sign the document during the ceremony but signed thereafter without the signature of the parties. ‘This practice is abnormal under the norms and procedures of signing agreements and a matter of concern as to the intentions behind this practice. ‘he Government on ‘the {GAD-Plus Proposal for the resolution of the Cri South Sudan’ ublic of South Sudan, a priori, Makes | | | | | E Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan’. Table 1 | Chapter Il; Permanent Ceasefire and Transitional Security Arrangements (PCTSAs). ‘The Reservations of the Government ‘on the IGAD-Plus Compromise Agreement on the Resolution of the Bs N | Area(s) of Reservations 1 Reasons for Reservations | Comments /Alternative Proposal | 25 Kms from the center of the National Capital beginning 30 days after the signing of this agreement and completed after 90 days. “Article 5.5: All military forces within Juba | This is a matter of sovereignty. shall be redeployed outside at a radius of | This article provides for the de- militarization of Juba, unstated. The army has the responsibility to protect the nation, its people and its jeadership. The army protected the capital during the failed Coup. Regardless of any military logic, relocated because of the rebels is albeit |not part of the cantonment. The the fact that they are being | provocative and may cause instability within the forces i across the country. The National Army remains in their headquarters since Juba is fear of the rebels can be addressed as per article 5.4 ‘regarding external forces for personnel protection in collaboration with | the national security forces’. ‘Article 4.1; After entering into Ceasefire, the Monitoring and Verification Mechanism (MVM) shall transition to become the Ceasefire and Transitional Security Arrangement — Monitoring Mechanism (CTSAMM) responsible for reporting on the progress of the implementation of the Permanent | Ceasefire and Transitional Security Arrangements (PCTSA) Sudan. |The performance of the current There is need to reconstitute the MVM is not satisfactory because | MVM with the consent of the its reports are based on unofficial | government before its transition information and usually biased | to CTSAMM. | against the government of South | Reservations of the government on the IGAD-Plus Proposal for the resolution of the Crisis in South Sudan 4 Table 2 ‘The Reservations of the Government ‘on the IGAD-Plus Compromise Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan’ (Cont). Area(s) of Reservations Reasons for Reservations Comments/Alternative Proposal Ttem 2.2: ‘The warring parties agree the forces to be cantoned are those forces previously in combat in Juba, Jonglei, Unity, Upper Nile and any other forces related to the conflict in other areas...” Juba is not a theater of operations although the failed Coup started in Juba. Delete Juba from the list of the cantonment areas. Article 7;..shared Unified Command of the National Defense Forces of South | Sudan (NDFSS) immediately and to be completed within 18 months...’ NDFSS is an organization. Eighteen months suggest that there will be two separate armies contrary to the agreed provisions of the pre- transitional period. The two should continue only during the pre-transition. The transitional period should start with one national army, not two armies. unknown | Delete reference to NDFSS| throughout the document and | replace with the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA). Ttem 16: ‘.Sudansese Revolutionary Forces (SPLM-North, JEM, SLA-Minawi and |SLA-Abdulwahid) shall be disarmed, | demobilized and repatriated by the state |actors with whom they have been supporting within the Pre-Transitional Period’. This provision is intended to incriminate the government of South Sudan even though it is not supporting the rebels of Sudan and that is what the rebels previously alleged to. The Sudan revolutionary forces have no presence in South Sudan, we| | have no control over them and therefore could neither disarm nor demobilize them. Delete this provision. | Reservations of the Government on ‘the IGAD-Plus Proposal for the resolution of the Cris sis in South Sudan’ The Reservations of the Government ‘on the IGAD-Plus Compromise Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan’ (Cont). Table 3 (syn Area(s} of Reservations | ___ Reasons for Reservations Comments/Alternative Proposal Chapter Vil: Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (JMEC) [@ | Article 2.5: “Shall be chaired by a[1. The provisions of Chapter VI; | Limit the function of the JMEC to | jprominent African _ personality | (Articles 2.5, 3, 4, 5 and 6) makes | monitoring evaluation and | appointed by the IGAD Assembly of| the JMEC the governing authority | reporting to the TGoNUon the Headsof State and Government in|of the Republic of South Sudan, | implementation of the agreement. consultation with IGAD-Plus...’. Neither the government nor the National Legislature will have a| Delete ‘oversee’ wherever it) role to play. appears in this Chapter. at Artie 4: \..The JMEC shall also/2. The JMEC does not only oversee the CTSAMM, the MVM, the/oversee the function of the As above EFMA and all the institutions created by | TGONU, but it also undertakes | the Agreement...’ some functions of the same. It has | taken over the oversight role of | | the National Legislative LL Assembly. ‘Article 3: JMEC shall be responsible for monitoring and overseeing the - As above | implementation of the agreement and | the mandate and tasks of the TGoNU...’ _| “Article 6:'....The JMEC shall, within one | | month of the establishment of the - | As above TGoNU, negotiate and define functions the TGONU may cede to the JMEC.. Reservations of the government on the IGAD-Plus Proposal for the resolution of the Crisis in South Sudan 6 The Reservations of th e Government ‘on the IGAD-Plus Compromised Agreement on the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan’ (Cont). Table 4 S/N ‘Area(s) of Reservations Reasons for Reservations Resolution of the ‘Article. 5: ..Shall report regularly in| writing to the TGoNU Council of | Ministers, ‘Transitional National Assembly, the Chairperson of the ‘council of Ministers (Ethiopia), Chairperson of the African Union. Commission, the Peace and Security Council of the African Union and to the Secretary General and Security Council | of the United Nations on the Status of the implementation of this Agreement | every three months. For South Sudanese, this simply means taking over the sovereignty and the hard won independence of their country. | Again that confirms that JMEC is the actual ruling body in South Sudan. Commients/Alternative Proposal | As above | Ch. VIII; On the Supremacy of the Aj ement and the Procedure for ‘Amendment of the Agreement. Erticle 4: This Agreement may be amended by the parties by at least two- thirds of the members of the Council of | Ministers and at least two-thirds of the | voting members of the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission as per | Chapter 7, article 8 of this Agreement | consenting to the amendment followed by ratification by the transitional national legislature according to the | constitutional amendment procedures set out in the TCRSS, 2015. ‘This provision confirms the supremacy of the JMEC over the TGoNU and National Legislature. | and strongly rejected by the people of South Sudan. deleted. The part of this provision, which | cubjects the decision of the Council | of Ministers of the TGoNU to voting it js effectively neo-colonialism | and consent of |MECneeds to be Reservations of thé Government on ‘the IGAD-Plus Proposal for the resolution of the Crisis in South Sudan’ The Reservations of the Government ‘on the IGAD-Plus Compromise Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan’ (Cont). Table S S/N | Area(s) of Reservations Reasons for Reservations [Comments /Alternative Proposal Ch. V: Transitional Justice, ‘Accountability, Reconciliation and Healing. | and Compensation Authority. | \@ Article 1.1.3 and article 4 on ‘Reparation 1. Reparation and Compensation was never considered during the Addis Ababa Agreement of 1972 and the CPA of 2005 where South Sudanese suffered immensely. It was also not considered in the) states most affected by the aftermath of the SPLM/A split in| conflict-The establishment of the 1991which resulted in theBor massacre. This provision is itr appropriate, unprecedented and susceptible to abuse because the whole country would qualify. Remove this article from the Compromise Agreement. Priority will be given to the reconstruction | of the infrastructure and rebuilding | of livelihoods of communities in the Special Reconstruction Fund (SRF) recommended in Chapter IlI-2 Article 2.1 together with the inclusion of the Enterprise Development Fund (EDF) in| Chapter IV-7 will also contribute to che expeditious recovery of the | people of South Sudan. 2. This proposalfails to recognize that the crisis in South Sudan was a result of a failed Coup involving military confrontation between government forces and rebelling forces. 3, Experience of such proposal in Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Liberia and South Africa has shown that | it is impractical. Reservations of the government on the IGAD-Plus Proposal for the resolution of the Crisis in South Sudan, 8 ‘The Reservations of the Government ‘on the IGAD-Plus‘Compromised Agreement on the Resolution of the Table 6 Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan’ (Cont). S/N Area(s) of Reservations Reasons for Reservations Comments Alternative Proposal Ch: Transitional Government of National Unit TGONU) 9 Article 14: That the Executive of the TGoNU shall comprise the President, the First Vice President and the Vice President land the Council of Ministers and the Deputy Ministers. This is a reward for rebellion. | The wider South Sudanese Community rejects _ this provision, It is a humiliation to the Vice President and his constituency and has the potential to cause more problems in the entire South Sudan. Two Vice Presidents with equal status. Functions and Duties as shall be determined by the| President. The President appoints his Cabinet Ministers as per the constitution of the Republic of South Sudan, and not by a gambling process as per the provisions of the Agreement. Article 15: Structure and Composition of | the state governments Article 15.1; Not later than one month from the commencement of the transitional period, transitional governors of Jonglei, Unity and Upper Nile States shall be appointed for | the duration of the Transition, The Communities in the three states suffered destruction and | massacre in the 1991 split and| for the second time in the 2013- 2014 failed Coup in the hands of the same Dr. RiekMachar. Whywould they fight the rebels in defense of the country and lose lives if they were to know that these states are to be/| handed over to reward the| rebels? All the communities, including their governors totally reject this provision. ‘The rebels should only share in the Executive but not to hold the position of governorship. There is already tension and real threat | arising from this proposal and | hence putting the entire peace agreement in jeopardy. Reservations of the Government on ‘the IGAD-Plus Proposal for the resolution of the Crisis in South Sudan’ The Reservations of the Government ‘on the IGAD-Plus Compromised Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan’ (Cont). Table 7 S/N Area(s) of Reservations Reasons for Reservations Comments/Alternative Proposal For two of the governors position in Upper Nile and Unity State, the South Sudan Armed Opposition shall nominate candidates, which the President shall appoint respectively. The GRSS will nominate the governor of Jonglei. Handing over the two states to the rebels is a reward that will provoke rebellions and divisions in South Sudan. These states are currently under the control of the government. Already there is serious resentment and anger against this proposal with potential for mutiny. The governors of the three states shall be nominees of the government because it is in control. Article 5.2: The State Council of Minister in the states of Jonglei, Unity and Upper Nile shall be reconstituted and appointed at the beginning of the transition and not later than a month as per the following power sharing ratio (GRSS 46%, SSAP 40%, FDs 7% and other political parties 7%). There is no convincing rationale for the proposed ratios since the rebels do not control these states. The rebels shall be accommodated in the Executive in a power-sharing ratio of 70%, 20% and 10% to the GRSS, SPLM/A-I0 and the other political _—_parties respectively. 13 Article 5.3: In the remaining seven states the GRSS will have 85% of the Executive while the South Sudan Armed Opposition have a representation of 15% in the Executive of the respective States. The rebels have no presence in the seven states. The 15% should be allocated to the other political parties. Reservations of the government on the IGAD-Plus Proposal for the resolution ofthe Crisis in South Sudan 10 The Reservations of the Government ‘on the IGAD-Plus Compromise Agreement on the Resolution of the Table 8 Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan’ (Cont). S/N _| Area(s) of Reservations Reasons for Reservations | Comments/Alternative Proposal Chil: Humanitarian Assistance and Reconstruction 14 ‘Article 2:TheSpecial Reconstruction Fund | The Foreign Chairperson ofthe|The Minister of Finance and (SRE): Sub article 2.3 that the BSRF shall | Board will have no competence | Economic Planning shall chair the |be chaired by an International member|to report to the national | Board and may be deputized by a \ | and Deputized by the Ministry of Finance | legislature. foreigner. |__| and Planning. ‘Article 2.4 the International members of| This is redundant. Delete the BSRF shall select the chair | ‘Article 2.8: Report on the income,| As state above. | As state above. expenditure and the projects supported by the Fund shall be placed by the Board before the National Assembly and the | Council of States, which shall exercise oversight over the Fund. Chapter VI: Resource, Economic and Financial Management : 45 |Article 8:Economic and Financial | Oversight on Financial and fiscal ‘There is no requirement for this Management Authority (EFMA). Sub-| matters is the prerogative of body and should be deleted. article 8.1 ‘...the mandate of the authority | National Legislative Assembly shall be to provide an effective oversight of | under the Committee of Public | leconomic and public _ financial | Accounts. The proposal suggests | i | management, and to ensure transparency | the members of parliament shall and accountability particularly in the|be appointed to a body oil/petroleum sector/concessions and | whichthey are mandated to constract award/budgetary and public / oversee. expenditure/revenue collection. Reservations of the: Government on ‘the IGAD-Phus Proposal for the resolution of the Crisis in South Sudan’ ey The Reservations of the Government ‘on the IGAD-Plus Compromise Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan’ (Cont). Table 9 [s/n [Area(s) of Reservations [ Comments Alternative Proposal | Reasons for Reservations Chapter VI: Parameters of ‘the Permanent Constitution ‘Article 5.5: That the parties agree that the Transitional National Legislature shall | be transformed into a 116 | Month of the Transition for purposes of | |adopting the constitution after which it shall be dissolved after the election Reservations of the government on the IGAD-Plus Proposal Constituent | time to deliberate and adopt the | Assembly on the first date of the 27®| permanent constitution before its This provision does not provide |The National Legislature should the Constituent Assembly enough | be reconstituted into Constituent ‘Assembly six Monthsbefore the end of the Transition to adopt the permanent constitution at the) end of the twenty seventh Month | | after which it shall be dissolved | preceding the elections. dissolution at the end of the twenty seventh(27®) Month of the transition. for the resolution of the Crisis in South Sudan 12

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