Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 7 October 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

Humanitarian Crisis in South Sudan: International Committee of Red Cross

10:00 am

Mr. Franz Rauchenstein:

The peace agreement has been signed with very tight deadlines for the withdrawal of troops and the confinement of troops, but these deadlines have not been met. There have been recent signs that both parties might extend the reservations made with regard to this paper, which is a framework and does not deal with the details. There has been a working group comprising the high commanders of each party, but two weeks ago in Addis Ababa, they could not gather behind one strategy on how to start the implementation of this peace agreement.