Machar, new R-JMEC chief General Charles Tai discuss peace implementations  

JUBA – South Sudan’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny  has today met the newly appointed chairperson of the Reconstituted Join Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (R-JMEC), General Charles Tai Gituai, and discussed range of issues related to the implementation of the revitalized peace agreement.

Machar is a signatory to the revitalized peace agreement, which came about as result of a two-year peace process under the auspices of the former Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir.

Speaking following the meeting with Machar, Gituai said he discussed with the main armed opposition leader the implementation of the revitalized peace agreement especially the issue of the responsibility sharing at the states and local government levels.

“The time now is two years since the signing of the revitalized agreement on the resolution of the conflict in South Sudan. So, we have been going around meeting the senior leadership so that they can brief us on the progress, what so far has been achieved and what are the programs for the future towards the implementation of this agreement,” Gituai told the state-owned SSBC.

“So this afternoon we had a lengthy discussion with His Excellency [the First Vice President] particularly on the issues of the governance. We have discuss the issues of the chairing of responsibilities at the level of the states and the chairing of the positions at the level of the counties as well,” he said.

He said the two men also discussed the peace deal’s provision on the security arrangements which is related to the training and the reunification of the rival forces for the possible establishment of the country’s first professional national army.

“We also discussed as well the issue of the chapter two which is the security arrangements and how the training of the troops and how they are going to be trained, looking at the training itself, how it is established and how they conduct this training and how the management of the training,” he said.

He further said the two also “discussed the economic reforms and the public finance management issues.”