North, South Sudan leaders arrive in Ethiopia for summit
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
July 3, 2011 (ADDIS ABABA) – The leaders of North and South Sudan have arrived in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to attend a summit to discuss post-independence relations less than week before South Sudan secedes from the North.
Ethiopian State television (ETV) late on Sunday displayed the arrival of Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir and first Vice President Salva Kiir, wo is also the President of the autonomous region of South Sudan.
Upon arrival at Addis Ababa Bole international airport, the two leaders were warmly welcomed by a number of higher government officials and diplomats.
The final implementation of Sudanese peace process will top the summit’s agenda when it kicks off on Monday.
President Bashir met on Sunday evening with Sudan’s vice-president and South Sudan leader Salva Kiir Mayardit who told reporters following the meeting that he renewed his invitation to the President Bashir to attend 9 July celebrations of the South’s independence.
Kiir also stressed that relations between the North and South Sudan should remain good after the independence.
Also the former South African president Thabo Mbeki who brokers talks on the remaining issues briefed Bashir on Monday’s meeting and the latest development in the talks between the two sides.
Based on recommendations forwarded by the IGAD Foreign Ministers during the June 28-29 meeting held during in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, IGAD will advise a breakthrough to the disputed oil-producing region of Abyei and also on demarcating the ill-defined North-South border.
Just days ahead of partition the two parties have yet to announce agreements on a range of issues from national assets to citizenship. A new oil deal is also needed. Under the CPA South Sudan’s oil is split 50-50 with the North.
However for the foreseeable future South Sudan will have to continue using North Sudan to refine and export its oil. It is expected that a fee will be agreed to allow the South to export its oil, the revenue of which provides 98 percent of the Southern governments budget.
The regional bloc will also discuss the security situation in Somalia and Eritrea’s activities in the region.
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George Bol
North, South Sudan leaders arrive in Ethiopia for summit
Abyei protocols, border demarcation, and consultation for South Kordufan/Nuba and Blue Nile are the major issues that both sides could renew the conflict. Citizenships and debt are now that serious.
George Bol
North, South Sudan leaders arrive in Ethiopia for summit
Citizenship and national debt are not that serious because those are conceived very clear. North used these debt to buy wepaons against the South-it clear. Citizenship are not concerning the Dina -Ngok in the Abyei-this issue is going to be solve in Abyei protocols. But for those working in Khartoum,we South Sudanese want them to come in the South if not then they are going to be immigrants working under Arab in the North.
Sam.Eto
North, South Sudan leaders arrive in Ethiopia for summit
Actually the agreement on debt is as follows. The North will bear the $38 Billion debt, only if the South lobbies countries to remove this debt by 2 years. The agreement states that if the debt is not relieved by 2 years then it WILL be split 50-50 by the North and the South.
Dr. Francis Lologo
North, South Sudan leaders arrive in Ethiopia for summit
Sam or Smaira,ETO
Are you really talking from the government side or from your mind, my friend the game is is over, thing about another alternatives South Sudan will never be the same as you already notice.
Yesterday you talks about security and today you talks about debt and tomorrow you will talks about oil sharing, my Arabs friend i really fell sorry for your future and now i can fell that you need even even to change your religion in order to survive in Southern Sudan period, because you are terrorist Muslim who can’t be able to survive in this anymore after Ben Leaden Death.
My friend the time is counting for the end of terrorist Islamic religion to come to the end, I hope you change right quick but what about your color, please uses black cream to change you Arab skin to the African once.
Dr.Lologo
seyoum777
North, South Sudan leaders arrive in Ethiopia for summit
The Sky is not the limit!
WE Africans have gone through terrible times. Extreme poverty and backwardness have become our identifying marks. The reasons for the prevalent dire political, social and economical conditions of our continent are many. A good deal of them is of external nature. We live in a world of slavery of immense humanity in a politically corrupt, manipulated market system of artificial scarcity, a tyrannical, destructive system to perpetuate poverty and exploitation in the interest of the ruling class, i.e the Western capitalism.
The West from its genocide of the native Americans, mercantile plundering and enslavement of African natives to its Militaristic rise of European Powers to World wars and Financial serfdom of the world has been a disastrous imposition of minority rule.
The main culprit has now a new face, that is Neo-colonialism which largely lives on perpetrating strife in the world. We Africans by fighting each other should not play into the hands of this system of greed.
The recent agreement reached by South and North Sudan to resolve their differences regarding the disputed Abiye region, peacefully is commendable. I salute all who tirelessly labored to bring the two parties to the negotiation table. Africa is now seeing leaders who are determined to resolve conflicts through dialogue. We have had our share of bigotry and civil strife; the time is now to work together towards eradicating poverty and backwardness.
If we cooperate, even the sky is not the limit. If we cooperate, we can raise our voices high and request for compensation for all evils done to us. If we cooperate, we can use our unity as a bargaining power and request for the continent’s bail out not in millions but in hundreds of billions. If we cooperate, love and respect one another, the sky is not the limit, we can stir the Almighty to lower the heavens and bless our efforts.
If we just cooperate……………………
Deng Ateny Lueth
North, South Sudan leaders arrive in Ethiopia for summit
Noo, no and no,i don’t support the idea of going Ethiopia and this late hours. why, Khartoum was using south Sudan millitias hoping to overthrow government, but now they failed to do so, they were told to settle those issues earlier but the refused to speed it up now there is now avenue for discussion left for the two to negotiate post-independence issues or future relations. i don’t encourage going to Addis Ababa because it has become like going to Mecca habitually done every year,and arabs are still engage with the act of terrorism,and suicide bombing of innocent people.