Ethiopia, South Sudan sign two cooperation agreements

December 14, 2007 (ADDIS ABABA) — Ethiopia and South Sudan signed on Friday two cooperation agreements that aiming to share experiences in various development sectors, the official Ethiopian News Agency reported on Friday.

Ethiopian minister of Work and Urban Development, Kassu Ilala and South Sudanese ministers of Transport and Roads, David Deng Athorbei, singed the agreements.

The first agreement enables Ethiopia to provide technical support and share experiences with South Sudan in the stated sectors besides provision of capacity building activities in education, telecommunication, agriculture, and animal breeding sectors.

The second agreement which related to cooperation in the transport sector enables to link South Sudan and Ethiopia with roads and enable the two countries to enhance cooperation in housing development sector besides exchanging experiences in rehabilitating the war-torn region, South Sudan.

Speaking at the occasion, Kassu Ilala said Ethiopia is desirous and ready to enhance cooperation with South Sudan. Kassu said Ethiopia is willing to share experiences particularly in road construction and housing development sectors with South Sudan.

Following the signing of agreements, David Deng Athorbei commended Ethiopia’s commitment to back infrastructure and human resource developments in South Sudan. They said such efforts would further strengthen the people-to-people relations.

(ST)