Bashir negotiates peace-time relations in historic visit to South Sudan

by admin
Apr 11, 2013
In a historic visit to South Sudan, Sudan's President, Omar al-Bashir called for peace and normalised relations between the two nations.
Bashir met with South Sudanese president Salva Kiir Mayardit to negotiate measures that would improve their economic relations, following months of hostility that resulted in air raids and border excursions that were detrimental to both struggling economies.
Purporting that the two countries would not return to war,  Bashir outlined the purpose of his visit telling Reuters,
"I have instructed Sudan's authorities and civil society to open up their brothers in the Republic of South Sudan, I came to Juba because we now have the biggest chance to make peace."
Mayardit affirmed Bashir's remarks stating,
"I and President Bashir agreed to implement all co-operation agreements."
Today's meeting was Bashir's first visit to South Sudan since the South declared independence from his regime in 2011.
The two leaders are expected to move forward on nine areas that were determined as part of the extended separation talks which, other than oil transport negotiations,  include the re-opening of banking relations between the two nations, establishing freedoms of citizens to move between the two countries and work either side of the international border, and resolving issues over disputed territory.
 

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