Embassy of the Republic of the Sudan in Berlin

Arrangements Started to Hold Conference of Governance System in Sudan

Khartoum, April 5 (SUNA) – Arrangement are taking place at the Ministry of Federal Government to hold the Conference of Governance System in Sudan during April 24 – 28. In a statement to SUNA, the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Federal Government, Hassan Nasralla, said that the conference on the Governance System in Sudan is one of the major commitments in the Juba Peace Agreement. He said that it is a conference for all the people of Sudan without discrimination or exclusion to any one and aims to reach a formula that they agree upon in managing the country’s governance, noting that the conference has specific goals that is represented in discussing the borders issue, the naming and structuring regions, names of capitals, the various ministries, the legislative body and internal horizontal divisions. Hassan said that the conference will also review in detail the issue of power and wealth by finding a satisfactory and fair formula for the distribution of wealth, pointing to the establishment of mechanisms for a Fund and Commission for Division of revenues that will be independent and aims is to divide resources vertically between the center and the states and horizontally between the states with each other, as well as creating a formula based on the positive discrimination of the states that were affected by the war and the less developing states, in addition to finding a means to implement the motto of migration from the city to the rural areas. He indicated that there is an executive committee, headed by the Minister of Federal Government with the participation of peace partners, the forces of freedom and change, political parties and a group of experts and politicians as well as six sub-committees, that is concerned with the scientific papers, technical preparations and the participation of states and the popular and factional sectors related to the conference. Nasralla stressed that the recommendations of the conference will be transformed into decisions that the state will adopt and implement, on ground that the conference aim to define the future of the country’s administration. MO