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A discussion on the Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement: Where to next? with Omer Siddig (Ambassador of Sudan to the UK), Kuyok Abol Kuyok (General Secretary of SPLM UK), Dr Douglas Johnson (Abyei Boundaries Commission), and Michael O’Neill (UK Special Representative on Sudan).

The two parties to the agreement need to find a way to work through some difficult issues

Representatives of other Sudanese political parties and civil society will also be in attendance and there will be time for statements and discussion.

At: House of Commons, Committee Room 8, Committee Corridor, St-Stephen’s Entrance (map attached)

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Draft Agenda:

SUDAN: WHERE IS THE COMPREHENSIVE PEACE AGREEMENT HEADING?

House of Commons 10 December 2007

Chair: David Drew MP, Chair of Associate Parliamentary Group on Sudan (0207 219 6113)

1800 arrivals and welcome

1800 - 1820 CPA Implementation Viewpoints: Where are we now?

• H.E Omer Siddig, Ambassador of Sudan to the UK

H.E. Omer Siddig is currently the Ambassador of the Republic of Sudan to the UK. Prior to his appointment, H.E. was Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany. From 2003-4 he was Director of the Department of Peace and Humanitarian Affairs and from 2004-5 Executive Director of the Office of the Minister for Foreign Affairs. H.E. was a member of the Government of Sudan’s negotiating team during the Naivasha talks.

• Kuyok Abol Kuyok, General Secretary of SPLM UK

Kuyok Abol Kuyok has worked in the UK SPLM Office since 1994 and is currently the Secretary General of the SPLM Chapter in the UK and Ireland. Before coming to the UK, he taught in the Sudan.

1820 - 1830 Critical Issues in Dispute: Abyei and the road to Elections

• Douglas Johnson

Douglas H. Johnson is an historian of the Sudan and author of The Root Causes of Sudan’s Civil Wars (James Currey, 2003). He recently served on the Abyei Boundaries Commission, as part of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Sudan. He is a Senior Associate Member of St Antony’s College, Oxford.

1830 - 1840 A UK and International Perspective

• Michael O’Neill, UK Special Representative on Sudan

UK Special Representative for Sudan, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office since July, Michael O’Neill was formerly a UK External Relations Counsellor to the European Union in Brussells, and a Counsellor on Sustainable Development and Human Rights with the UK Mission to the United Nations, New York.

There will be time for statements and questions following the presentations