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“The meeting of our president Salva Kiir Mayardit and President Omar El-Bashir will go ahead on the 4th of January 2013 and their main topics of discussion will be simply the implementation of the agreements that has been signed,” Dr. Barnaba Benjamin Marial has told reporters.
“The two presidents can meet so that as sooner they can head for the greater meeting of the African head of states and the IGAD heads of state which will be on the 13th of January.”
In December 2012, the Ethiopian Prime Minister urged the two presidents to meet in an effort to sort out the outstanding issues especially the issue of the cooperation agreement which was signed in September 2012 by the two presidents.
Khartoum had put some conditions for the implementation of the cooperation agreement including the disarmament of the Sudanese rebels.
The South Sudanese authorities have accused Khartoum of refusing to implement agreements.
Many of the agreements have not been implement in the past with accusations and counter accusations of rebel support by the governments of the other countries.
Many people have attributed that to lack of trust between the two sisterly countries.
Should the agreement set for tomorrow a bare fruit, the oil is expected to flow soonest as per the cooperation agreement.
A year ago, South Sudan accused Khartoum of stealing its oil and decided to shut its oil production and impact which saw the economies of the two countries hit by inflation.
“Our chief negotiator Pagan Amum will leave today [yesterday] for Addis Ababa ahead of the president meeting his counterpart the chief negotiator from the republic of Sudan so that they can prepare the ground in regards with the implementation of the cooperation agreement,” Marial said.
Meanwhile, the United States of America, Norway and United Kingdom have strongly welcomed the move taken for the two Presidents of Sudan and South Sudan to meet and resolve outstanding issues between their countries.
A joint statement by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide, and United Kingdom Foreign Secretary William Hague applauds the progress made at their Presidential Summit held in Addis Ababa at the end of September 2012, which demonstrated that a durable and equitable settlement is within reach.
“We commend the continuing valuable role of the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel led by former President Thabo Mbeki and the efforts of Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn,” it says.
The leaders have deeply expressed regrets over failure of the progress in implementing the Agreements signed on 27 September 2012.
“We regret that progress in implementing the Agreements signed on 27 September has stalled and in particular that the agreed security arrangements at the border are not yet in place. We call on the two leaders now to address concretely all outstanding issues and ensure that the armed forces of the two countries immediately withdraw from the demilitarized zone and deploy the Joint Border and Verification and Monitoring Mechanism (JBVMM), in line with what has been agreed,” says the statement.
The leaderships of the United States of America, Norway and United Kingdom have assured the leaders of Sudan and South Sudan that the international community is fully committed to a vision of two viable countries at peace with one another, and that they stand ready to support them in realizing that vision.
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