Sudan says border dispute with Egypt to be resolved through dialogue
June 30, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir today affirmed his government’s willingness to resolve the border dispute with neighbouring Egypt through dialogue.
Speaking to reporters on his way home from China, Bashir said that government of deposed president Hosni Mubarak took over Halayeb region when Sudan was fighting a civil war with the South.
Bashir added that given these circumstances Sudan favored not to open a new front and sought to settle the dispute through consultation with Cairo. He said that they are waiting for a new government in Egypt to discuss this issue.
The Halayeb triangle that overlooks the Red Sea has been contentious issue between the two countries as early as 1958, shortly after Sudan gained independence from British-Egyptian rule.
The area has been under Cairo’s control since the mid-1990’s after a Sudanese backed attempt on former Egyptian president Mohamed Hosni Mubarak’s life.
Sudan has avoided registering voters inside Halayeb for the elections which took place last year despite earlier assertions that the region was included as a constituency.
But the issue of Halayeb flared up in July of last year when President Al-Bashir made a surprising assertion that “Halayeb is Sudanese and will stay Sudanese” while addressing a rally of his supporters at the coastal town of Port Sudan.
Egypt at the time dismissed the remarks stressing that its Southern borders “are well known at latitude 22°”.
Bashir has rarely brought up the issue publicly in order to avoid angering his Northern neighbour which has been one of his main backers.
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talentboy2
Bashir says border dispute with Egypt to be resolved through dialogue
Coward Bashir,
you know Egypt will crush you and the whole North will be invade by Cairo. that why you are fighting with an armed civilians in the south,Darfur, Blue Nile and Nubia mountain.
Let me tell you something brother
Nubian and Blue Nile people will not be slaughtered like darfurian , who have been arabised, enslave and were use to fight their brothers in the south. 8 years ago you called them black african and killed them.
South sudanese and Nubian are Kushite ancestors and will not allow themselve again to be slave in the north sudan. S.kordafun and blue nile are to be annex to the south whether by force or dialogue. South sudanese people will not let their brothers fight the racial war between arab and nubian people.
Mawut
Emmanuel Ajang Solomon
Sudan says border dispute with Egypt to be resolved through dialogue
Young man keep quiet time will tell our former president what his country to remain will be, if he can manage to survive all the revenges.
Egypt will have the place by any means and there is no way Bashir is going to have it,what he is doing is to deceived his people that we are capable of war and it will be seen in abyei, or kaduguli.