Mbeki suggested a meeting of al-Bashir and Salva Kiir on Tuesday in Addis Ababa
05-27-2012 12:39 AM
Proposed a mechanism for African mediation on outstanding issues between the states of Sudan and Southern Sudan a meeting of the two heads of Omar al-Bashir and Salva Kiir on 29 May in Addis Ababa this newspaper reported the Sudanese public opinion. The paper quoted in the issue dated on Saturday, the President of the African mechanism to mediate between the states of Sudan and Southern Sudan, Thabo Mbeki as saying, "I asked the two presidents Omar al-Bashir and Salva Kiir to come to Addis Ababa on 29 May the current to determine the agenda of negotiations and the development of UN Security Council resolution and road map of Africa into practice." . "We must to the delegations of the negotiations between the two countries should be ready to go to Addis Ababa when requested to do so," adding that "peace parties negotiating a formal notice of the date of the start of negotiations." And negotiate the Sudan and South Sudan on a number of outstanding issues between the two most important issues of security issues, oil, and the demarcation of the border. Negotiations have stalled between the two parties due to armed clashes which took place in the area of Heglig oil between the armies of the two countries. The UN Security Council adopted unanimously a resolution recently calling Sudan and South Sudan to cease all hostilities immediately, including aerial bombing and the withdrawal of all armed forces unconditionally to their territories. He asked the two countries to submit a formal written commitment to the President of the African Union Commission and the President of the Security Council within 48 hours of adoption of the resolution. The African Union had requested in a decision issued on 24 April the last of the UN Security Council demands, which calls for adoption of the Sudan and South Sudan to cease hostilities within 48 hours and the start of talks in two weeks and the completion of a peace agreement within three mont
