President Al-Bashir gives South Sudan until December to implement signed agreements
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Friday said he will give South Sudan until 2016 to implement the agreements signed between the two countries.
Sudan and South Sudan signed a cooperation agreement in 2012 in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, under the patronage of the African Union.
The agreement included a package of understandings related to security, citizens’ status, border and economic issues, as well as oil and trade.
“We signed agreements with South Sudan in 2012, but its government has not implemented these agreements until now,” said al-Bashir when addressing the Shura Council of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) in Khartoum.
Al-Bashir stressed that his government is keen on having good ties with South Sudan, “but until the end of December, they have either to implement the agreements or we will turn the page,” without explicitly stating what Sudan would do if the South failed to implement the agreements.
A border issue remains the biggest obstacle to the settlement of differences between Sudan and South Sudan.
