Press Statement

Withdrawal From Political Parties’ Leadership Forum

28/4/2011 [Juba]

We, the undersigned political parties, which pulled out [of] the Constitutional Review Committee, have now decided to withdraw from the Political Parties’ Leadership Forum (PPLF) for the following reasons:

1. We had written to the Rapporteur of the PPLF, the Vice-President of the Government of [Southern] Sudan (GOSS), seeking assurances that the PPLF [would] discuss issues related to the Final Communiqué of the Political Parties’ meeting of October 17^th, 2010. The Vice-President replied that:
   
   1. the meeting shall be an open forum, and it shall be the leaders who shall adopt the agenda. That is, they can add to or remove anything they wish from the items of the agenda suggested by the secretariat.
      

      
      

   2. the decision of the forum shall be by consensus.
      

2. These assurances from the Vice-President of GOSS convinced us that . . .
   
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