Sudan, South Sudan foreign ministers to meet next month

Sudan’s Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour is scheduled meet his South Sudanese counterpart Barnaba Marial Benjamin in early August in Khartoum.

Sudan’s Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour is scheduled meet his South Sudanese counterpart Barnaba Marial Benjamin in early August in Khartoum.

The meeting is meant to follow-up on implementation of the Joint Cooperation Agreement between the two countries.

In a press statement at the republican palace in Khartoum, Ghandour said the meeting was agreed upon while he visited South Sudan’s capital Juba to attend independence day celebrations on 9 July.

In September 2012, the two Sudans signed nine agreements on a range of issues that they have been negotiating since 2010, initially in accordance with the Post-Referendum Arrangements negotiations provided for in the Southern Sudan Referendum Act, 2009.