Sudans'
Implementation
Matrix Sets
Deadlines for
Oil &
Abyei, PRST
Awaits?
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, March
12 -- The
actual
“Implementation
Matrix for
Agreements”
between Sudan
and South
Sudan which threw
the UN
Security
Council into
turmoil on
March 12
is 16 pages
long and puts
many due dates
off into the
future.
Inner
City Press has
obtained a
copy of the
Matrix and
puts it online
here.
The
portion most
reported in
international
media is point
9 of 9, on oil
“and related
economic
matters.”
In
14 days South
Sudan is to
instruct oil
companies to
re-establish
oil
production,
and Sudan to
re-establish
processing and
transportation.
But
the processing
and
transportation
agreements
won't be done
for
150 days
(Section
10.8).
Also
in 14 days,
the UNISFA
force
commander is
to report on
withdrawals.
On Tuesday, UN
Secretary
General named
another
(Ethiopian)
force
commander for
the all
Ethiopian UN
Peacekeeping
mission in
Abyei.
The
Abyei Police
Service is to
be constituted
in 30 days. A
Joint Central
Banks
Committee is
to be
established in
five days.
Much longer
term,
it is said,
Sudan will
take all
necessary
action to
reach the HIPC
decision
point,
“consultations
required with
the IMF, World
Bank
and African
Development
Bank” (Section
9.6).
For
the Joint
Border
Verification
Mechanism,
land will be
allocated in
GokMachar in
16 days, and
in Malakal and
Buram in a
month.
And
if any of
these things
don't happen?
Will another
Presidential
Statement
or resolution
be ready in
the Council?
Watch this
site.
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