Sudan News Agency (Khartoum)

Sudan: Al-Bashir to Hold Summit With Salva Kiir and Another With Ethiopian Prime Minister On Sunday

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Omar Hassan Ahmad Al-Bashir, President of Sudan, and Salva Kiir Mayardit, President of the Republic of South Sudan, greet each other at the Independence Ceremony of the new nation.

Khartoum — President of the Republic, Field Marshal,Omer Al-Bashir, is due to leave Sunday to Addis Ababa to participate at a summit with the President of the Republic of South Sudan, Salva Kiir, on the invitation extended by the new Ethiopian Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalegn and chairman of the African Union's High-Level Implementation Panel on Sudan.

The spokesman of the government delegation for negotiations in Addis Ababa, Ambassador Bader-Eddin Abdalla, said in a statement to SUNA that there will be three levels of the summit meetings between Presidents Al-Bashir and Salva Kiir, explaining that the first level deals with the agreements signed initially, especially that relates to citizenship and border demarcation that was signed on March 13, 2012.

He said that there are some issues that have been agreed upon, but were not signed and expected to be signed in the final form in the coming summit meeting.

He said that the third level deals with the issues that progress has achieved on them, but impediment are facing them.

He pointed to files that no progress was reached about them and due to be on table before the two presidents, adding that in all cases agreements shall be achieved about all issues, especially the security file. Ambassador Badr-Eddin stressed that implementation of all files depends on the achievement of a comprehensive framework agreement by the two countries.

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