CAIRO (AFP) – EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said on Wednesday he favoured unity for Sudan, where a referendum to decide the south’s independence will take place in 2011.
“It is very important to have that country united,” Solana told reporters in Cairo where he held talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Arab League chief Amr Mussa.
“I do look at the map, I do look at the distribution of resources, I do look at the situation… I am for the unity of the country,” he said.
North and South Sudan fought a devastating decades-long civil war that ended with the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA).
Under the deal, the south has a six-year transitional period of regional autonomy and takes part in a unity government until the 2011 referendum on self-determination.
On August 19, former enemies from north and south Sudan signed a new deal aimed at bolstering the 2005 peace agreement, witnessed by US special envoy Scott Gration.
The document — the result of months of negotiations between the two sides and the US envoy — covers key areas that both sides will work together on, including upcoming elections next April, peace efforts in the war-torn region of Darfur, demarcating the north-south border, and power sharing.
حركة العدل و المساواة السودانية
موقع متخصص بنقل آخر الأخبار و البيانات و القرارات لحركة العدل و المساواة السودانية