North Sudan strive to maintain good relations with south Article Comments (1) Email PrintSave --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
June 21, 2011 (JUBA) — The federal government remains committed in all efforts to maintain positive relations with their southern counterparts after the latter’s July independence, Ali Karti, Sudan’s foreign minister said in a statement before the national parliament. South Sudan is due to become Africa’s newest nation in less than a month after it population overwhelmingly voted for secession during the January self-determination referendum. The vote was a key part of Sudan’s 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), which ended decades of civil war between north and south. According to Karti, however, both the north the south should focus on good relations based on common interests. He cited the north-south border demarcation, economic issues and citizenship status as some of the contentious issues that require consensus, if positive relations between the two regions are to be achieved in reality. The federal government, the foreign affairs minister said in a statement, has already embarked on establishing an administrative and diplomatic base for the expansion of its communication office within their embassy in Juba, the southern capital. Karti, further says the foreign affairs statement, also stressed the importance of maintaining peace and security between the two neighboring nations, saying it remains a pillar for national stability. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will execute its duties based on good-neighborhood, mutual cooperation, achievement of the optimum exploitation of resources and the attraction of capitals,” Karti said in the statement. Sudan, according to its foreign minister, is currently working on activating the mechanisms of political dialogue at the level of European Union ambassadors in Khartoum and the delegations of the commission and the European Union to find out ways of enabling the country benefit from the Cotonou Agreement. The Cotonou Agreement is the most comprehensive partnership agreement between developing countries and the EU. Since 2000, it has been the framework for the EU’s relations with 79 countries from Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP). The first revision took place in 2005 and prepared the ground for the 2007-2013 financial framework of development assistance. (ST). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JFD info" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jfdinfo?hl=en.
