North & South sign accord on establishing diplomatic relations
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June 30, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The governments of North and South Sudan
signed an agreement today on establishing diplomatic relations
following the country’s breakup next month.
South Sudan is due to become an independent African country on 9 July
after voting for secession in a referendum agreed under a 2005 peace
deal that ended decades of civil war.
The deputy foreign minister Rahmatalla Osman who met with South Sudan
Undersecretary of regional cooperation Majok Walden told reporters
that the choice of ambassadors is a political and procedural matter
that will be determined in due course.
He further said that an agreement was reached on the technical
frameworks that will govern the diplomatic relations between the two
sides adding that special department will be created in the foreign
ministry to deal with the South.
The space that will be allocated to the embassies of both countries
reached an advanced stage, Osman said. He expressed the North’s
willingness to help the South in having a foreign ministry that is up
and running.
Majok on his end revealed that president Omer Hassan al-Bashir has
been officially invited to the independence ceremony and will be the
only head of state received by Salva Kiir at the airport.
He said that the signing of the first agreement between the North and
South is out of a desire was to strengthen the eternal relations
between the two sides. The Southern official pledged to engage in
constructive diplomatic dialogue especially with regards to political
issues between the two countries in the future.
Majok confirmed what presidential assistant Nafie Ali Nafie said
yesterday about the nine months period given to Southerners in the
North and Northerners in the South to seek necessary permits to stay
and work or depart.
However he stressed that repatriation to South Sudan will be voluntary.
On relations with Israel, the minister said that South Sudan will
focus initially on building ties with regional countries and pointed
out that the Jewish state has no borders with them.
(ST)
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