Display in: French - Spanish Printable version. Elections were successfully held in all parts of Sudan in April This resulted in the election of the President of the Republic who will form a Government in the next coming days, and of the President of the Government of southern Sudan. In addition to members of the National Assembly, the Legislative Assembly for southern Sudan and legislative councils for all provinces, mayors of the provinces welayat were also elected.
This demonstrates that the Sudan is seriously on the path towards democracy and sound rule, and that it is moving steadily towards a full implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, as already attested by a number of countries, international and regional organizations in In accordance with this Comprehensive Peace Agreement, it was agreed to hold a referendum next January so as to decide on self-rule for southern Sudan.
The Government hoped that the Conference Committee would take this information into account and support and encourage the Sudan in its process towards achieving a comprehensive democracy.
The Government annexed to the note verbale referred to above a document containing information which reflected the exact substance of information already provided by it to the Committee of Experts in November , in response to a communication by the ITUC dated 29 August This information from the Government was examined by the Committee of Experts in the observation regarding the Sudan on the application of this Convention, which is included in the report of the Committee of Experts and reproduced in C.
In addition, before the Committee, a Government representative reaffirmed the full commitment of his Government to comply with its international obligations, and particularly Convention No. He added that his Government appreciated the work of the Committee of Experts and reaffirmed its willingness to cooperate fully with the supervisory system. With regard to the comments made by the Committee of Experts concerning the Committee for the Eradication of Abduction of Women and Children CEAWC , which had been established in , he indicated that full and detailed replies had been made to all the comments.
