Kiir signs 4 international treaties into law

JUBA, FEBRUARY 24^th 2023 (SUDANS POST) – President Salva Kiir Mayardit on Friday signed at least four international treaties into law, days after a senior government official told journalists that the president will sign seven treaties into law.

In a statement, the presidency said Kiir signed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol, International Convention on Civil and Political Rights, Protocol on the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol).

Speaking following the signing of the treaties into law by the president, the speaker of South Sudan’s peace parliament Jemma Nunu Kumba described the signing of the treaties by the president as an indication of the government “commitment to people with special needs and women’s rights.”

She added that lawmakers “were on recess and will resume work on 27^th of March 2023.”

On Tuesday, South Sudan’s cabinet minister Martin Elia Lomuro told journalists that the president will sign seven international treaties into law.

The other three treaties are Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the Paris Accords or the Paris Climate Accords.

It remains unclear if the president will still sign these three treaties into law next week.