Russia intends to help Khartoum & Juba settle disputes, envoy says
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February 1, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – A senior Russian diplomat visiting
Khartoum has offered his country’s support to enable Sudan and South
Sudan to overcome their disputes.
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Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov (RIA Novosti. Eduard Pesov)
Russia’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mikhail Bogdanov has led a
delegation to the Sudanese capital and held a series of meetings with
top Sudanese officials.
Following a meeting with Sudan’s President Omer Al-Bashir on
Wednesday, Bogdanov told reporters that Moscow intends to support
Sudan in order to find durable solutions to all issues of contention
with South Sudan.
Sudan and South Sudan have been unable to overcome an array of
disputes arising from failure to fully implement the 2005
Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) which ended more than two decades
of civil wars between the two sides and paved the way for the south’s
secession in July last year.
The most notable of these disputes are to the status of the hotly
contested region of Abyei and sharing of oil revenues.
The Russian diplomat, however, pointed out that his country’s offer is
limited to making contacts between the two sides without going into
too many details or interfering with the ongoing efforts of the
African Union High Level Panel, the main facilitator of talks between
the two countries.
AUHIP-moderated talks between Sudan and South Sudan on the oil dispute
have been unsuccessful so far as the crisis escalated in recent weeks
after the south shut down oil production in response to Khartoum’s
unilateral decision to confiscate its oil.
Bogdanov said he had received briefing from Al-Bashir on the situation
between Sudan and South Sudan as well as the outcome of Sudan’s
participation at the 18th AU summit held in Addis Ababa.
Al-Bashir held a meeting with Kiir on the margins of the AU summit in
a bid to resolve the dispute but the talks collapsed after Kiir
refused to sign a proposed agreement on oil.
Separately, the Russian official held meetings with Sudan’s Foreign
Minister Ali Karti as well as the presidential assistant Nafie Ali
Nafie.
The Russian delegation is visiting Khartoum to participate in the
meetings of the joint ministerial committee between the two countries
which was formed during Karti’s visit to Moscow in December 2010.
The committee aims to advance bilateral cooperation in the fields of
economy, commerce and trade.
Bogdanov said his delegation comprises representatives of more than 10
Russian companies specialized in different fields.
He explained that the committee’s meeting, which is scheduled to kick
off today, will aim to link Russian entrepreneurs with their Sudanese
counterparts.
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