President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council(TSC) Gen. Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan presided over Sunday evening meeting of the signatory parties to the Framework Agreement in the presence of the TSC First Vice-President, Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, TSC member, Al-Taher Hajar and representatives of political and professional forces and the armed struggle movements signatory to the Framework Agreement and the political process facilitator, the trilateral mechanism, which consists of UNITAMS, AU and IGAD.
The draft final agreement was handed over during the meeting to parties to the political process and that the meeting also reviewed efforts of the committee assigned to contact the signatories and non-signatories to the Framework Agreement.
The political process official spokesman, Engineer Khalid Omar said in a press statement that the meeting officially handed over the initial draft of the final agreement, which consists of six parts, including the Framework Agreement-based final political agreement, in addition to some details related to the structures of the civil transitional authority, and five other parts which are protocols on the five issues that were agreed to be discussed in a broader manner, adding that the discussion ended in four of them through a number of workshops and conferences which have commenced on January 9 and are still going on.
. The spokesman for the political process indicated that the drafting committee relied, in drafting the final agreement, on compiling outcomes of the workshops and conferences on the four issues and converting them from the language of recommendations into a political agreement.
On issue of security and military reform, Eng. Omar explained that there is an agreed paper regarding the fifth issue, which is the paper of principles and foundations, as it was approved as an initial draft, provided that this paper is to be completed
based on outcomes of the workshop that began Sunday morning.
He added that the parties agreed to complete the draft final agreement on March 29, in order to meet the agreed timing for the final signing of the agreement.
Regarding efforts to contact the non-signatory parties, he explained that there is a contact committee which was formed in the previous meeting, and sat with these parties, indicating that there are huge efforts to address some issues that prevented them from being part of the final agreement.
Eng. Omar pointed out that the committee would continue its efforts with the non-signatory parties by meeting them Monday and handing over to them the draft final agreement for making their observations over it.