Saturday, May 3, 2014
President Uhuru Kenyatta receives South Sudan President Salva Kiir at
State House, Nairobi on May 3, 2014. Looking on is Baringo County
Senator Gideon Moi. PHOTO | PSCU
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad) will soon hold its summit in Juba, South Sudan, immediately after face to face talks between President Salva Kiir and Riek Machar.
Speaking
when he held talks with President Salva Kiir and Ethiopian Foreign
Affairs Minister Tedros Adhanom at State House Nairobi on Saturday
morning, President Uhuru Kenyatta made it clear that Igad will not
accept fragmentation of the ongoing peace talks on the South Sudan
crisis.
President Kenyatta who is the Igad rapporteur said the face to face talks will take place in the shortest time possible.
President
Kiir who arrived in the country on Friday to attend the fifth Northern
Corridor Integration Projects Summit briefed President Kenyatta and
Deputy President William Ruto on the talks he held with the visiting US
Secretary of State John Kerry in Juba on Friday.
He
said Secretary Kerry appreciated that African countries are better
placed in resolving conflicts afflicting the continent and more so the
Igad-led initiatives in South Sudan.
Mr Adhanom who
later arrived in country also briefed President Kenyatta and President
Kiir on the talks he had with Secretary Kerry.
In the
briefing session which was also attended by Cabinet Secretary for
Foreign Affairs Ambassador Amina Mohammed, the Ethiopian Minister said
Secretary Kerry expressed US commitment to supporting the Igad-led
initiatives in resolving the South Sudan crisis.
As the
Chairman of East African Community, President Kenyatta has made it
clear that Kenya and the EAC will not stand by and watch the possibility
of genocide in the region.
Through his efforts as the
Igad rapporteur to the South Sudan crisis, President Kenyatta on January
this year secured the release of political prisoners who had been
detained by the South Sudan government.
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