Kiyonga Woos Parties Back
Feb 05, 2004
THE National Political Commissar (NPC), Dr. Crispus Kiyonga, has invited the coalition of the seven mainstream political parties to discuss the resumption of talks. The meeting is scheduled for this evening.
By Joyce Namute
THE National Political Commissar (NPC), Dr. Crispus Kiyonga, has invited the coalition of the seven mainstream political parties to discuss the resumption of talks. The meeting is scheduled for this evening.
Preparatory talks between the Government and the parties hit a deadlock on January 23, with parties insisting that they would only resume talks if the Government accepted their four demands.
At the same time, the Government yesterday started consultations with four other political parties at Fairway Hotel, Kampala.
The four are Nelson Ocheger’s Action Party, the DP splinter group, Mayanja Nkangi’s CP and the People’s Independent Party led by Yahaya Kamulegeya.
The meeting agreed to set up four committees that will discuss various topics that form the agreed agenda and present their findings to the plenary for discussion and possible adoption.
The committees are the business committee, minutes committee, constitutional/legal committee and the public management committee.
The next meeting will be on February 10.
The Attorney General, Wandera Ogalo of the East African Legislative Assembly, Nkangi (CP) and Dongo Opar from DP were nominated on the constitutional committee. Other four members will come from the coalition, sources said.
This was the fifth meeting since the consultation process was launched.
Kiyonga’s invitation to the seven parties is in response to a January 30 letter by Prof. John-Jean Barya, head of the coalition team to the talks.
Kiyonga proposed to Barya that “before we resume the plenary meetings, five members from your delegation and the same number of people from our side meet on Friday (today) at 7:00pm.â€
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THE National Political Commissar (NPC), Dr. Crispus Kiyonga, has invited the coalition of the seven mainstream political parties to discuss the resumption of talks. The meeting is scheduled for this evening.
Preparatory talks between the Government and the parties hit a deadlock on January 23, with parties insisting that they would only resume talks if the Government accepted their four demands.
At the same time, the Government yesterday started consultations with four other political parties at Fairway Hotel, Kampala.
The four are Nelson Ocheger’s Action Party, the DP splinter group, Mayanja Nkangi’s CP and the People’s Independent Party led by Yahaya Kamulegeya.
The meeting agreed to set up four committees that will discuss various topics that form the agreed agenda and present their findings to the plenary for discussion and possible adoption.
The committees are the business committee, minutes committee, constitutional/legal committee and the public management committee.
The next meeting will be on February 10.
The Attorney General, Wandera Ogalo of the East African Legislative Assembly, Nkangi (CP) and Dongo Opar from DP were nominated on the constitutional committee. Other four members will come from the coalition, sources said.
This was the fifth meeting since the consultation process was launched.
Kiyonga’s invitation to the seven parties is in response to a January 30 letter by Prof. John-Jean Barya, head of the coalition team to the talks.
Kiyonga proposed to Barya that “before we resume the plenary meetings, five members from your delegation and the same number of people from our side meet on Friday (today) at 7:00pm.â€
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