Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir announced on Saturday that the political crisis in southern Sudan has been overpassed, Sudanese official news agency SUNA reported.
Before leaving for Burundi and South Africa for visits, President al-Bashir told SUNA that the meeting of the Sudanese presidency held on Friday evening had "managed to completely overpass the crisis."
He said that the meeting, bringing together al-Bashir, First Vice President and Chairman of the former rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) Salva Kiir Mayardit and Second President Ali Osman Mohammed Taha, "discussed all the issues and reached a complete agreement about them except Abiye area."
Abiye, an enclave locating on the north side of the so-called "1956/1/1 line" between the northern and southern Sudan, was claimed by both central government in the north and the southern Sudanese government led by Mayardit.
Mayardit, who was seeing off al-Bashir at the Khartoum International Airport, also confirmed to SUNA that "the two sides have overpassed the crisis and reached agreement on various issues."
He said that the Abiye problem would be discussed in the next meeting of the presidency, noting that an agenda had been worked out to implement what had been agreed.
The Friday evening meeting was the third between al-Bashir and Mayardit since the latter took a decision on Oct. 11 to suspend the participation of the ministers of the SPLM in the central government in Khartoum.
This is the most serious political crisis for the Sudanese Government of National Unity since it was established in September, 2005, in which the political power was shared mainly between the SPLM and the National Congress Party led by al-Bashir.
Source: Xinhua
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