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sabato 7 aprile 2012
Conflict or peace!!!
Bashir and Salva Kiir meet after the "necessary arrangements"
04-07-2012 10:30 AM
Thabo Mbeki announced a large African negotiators that the President of South Sudan Salva Kiir and his Sudanese counterpart Omar al-Bashir will meet to discuss outstanding issues between the two countries after the "make arrangements necessary."
It was scheduled to meet Bashir and Kiir, at a summit in the southern Sudanese capital Juba on 3 April / this April, but the renewed border clashes between the two countries led to the postponement and then to the failure of the negotiations under the auspices of an African in Addis Ababa.
Mbeki's comments came after his meeting with Bashir in Khartoum, he had met before in Juba Bakir, adding: "When and where" summit "will determine, after finishing the setup of the Commission to perform its mission."
It is noteworthy that the African Union has recently stepped up efforts to avert renewed war between the north and south Sudan after the outbreak of the heaviest round of fighting between the two sides in March / March.
The north and south fought a civil war lasting more than two decades, "1983-2005" when they were a single state, but the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, signed by the two sides in 2005 stopped the war and give southerners the right to self-determination, which led to the formation of their new state in July 2011.
Although it is still many outstanding issues threaten renewed fighting between the two most important of the disputed border points and fees for oil transit from the south to the north and each side accused of harboring armed opposition in the territory of the other.
Mbeki stressed that al-Bashir promised him that hundreds of thousands of southerners living in the Sudan for decades will not be subjected to harassment after ending the period of residence on Sunday.
The government of Sudan announced earlier that the southern residents to adjust their territory by 9 April.
However, Mbeki said: "President al-Bashir told me that there is no reason why southerners to fear of negative repercussions."
It is reported that about 700 thousand live in the south of the Republic of Sudan, and the majority had reached the north during the eighties of the last century to escape the civil war, which witnessed the southern part of Sudan at the time.
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