Countries agree to another meeting in two weeks
KHARTOUM (Agencies)
A visit by a senior Chadian delegation to Sudan ended with a thaw in tense relations between the two countries, Sudanese presidential adviser Ghaze Salaheddin said on Friday.
The neighboring countries agreed to another meeting in two weeks to take steps to stop cross-border rebel attacks from each side, the official SUNA news agency quoted Salaheddin as saying.
” There was a reasonable breakthrough in thawing the ice between the two countries ”
Sudanese presidential adviser Ghaze Salaheddin The visit, in which the delegation headed by Chadian Foreign Minister Moussa Faki Mahamat met Sudanese Omar al-Bashir on Thursday, helped restore trust between the neighbours, Salaheddin said.
“There was a reasonable breakthrough in thawing the ice between the two countries,” he said, adding the next meeting would be held in N’Djamena.
Chad and Sudan have made several attempts to improve ties, but these have foundered on armed conflicts in which each country accuses the other of giving support to rebel groups and harboring them.
They signed an accord last year in which they vowed to implement agreements on preventing rebels from using their territories for cross-border attacks, but the pacts, in which the rebels did not participate, have been unsuccessful.
Improved ties between the two countries could help bring peace to Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region, where about 300,000 people have died since ethnic rebels revolted in 2003. Sudan has accused Chad of supporting the rebels.