au press release: sudanese north-south border situation 11.15.11
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8/3/2019 AU Press Release: Sudanese North-South Border Situation 11.15.11
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AFRICANUNION UNIONAFRICAINEUNIOAFRICANA
AddisAbaba,Ethiopia,P.O.Box:3243 Tel.:(25111)5513822 Fax:(25111)5519321
Email:[email protected]
PRESS RELEASE
THE AFRICAN UNION EXPRESSES DEEP CONCERN AT THE TENSION AT THE
BORDER BETWEEN THE REPUBLIC OF SUDAN AND
THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH SUDAN
AddisAbaba, 15November 2011: TheChairpersonof theCommissionof theAfricanUnion(AU),Dr.JeanPing,haslearntwithgreatconcernofthefatalincidentthatoccurredintheYida
Payam,
Unity
State
of
Southern
Sudan,
on
10
November
2011.
He
has
also
been
keenly
following the statementsmade by both theGovernment of the Republic of Sudan and the
Government of the Republic of South Sudan, relating to the situation prevailing along the
northsouthborder.
TheChairpersonoftheCommissionurgesbothGovernmentstoexerciseutmostrestraintand
torefrainfromanyactthatmayfurtheraggravatethealreadytensesituationontheircommon
border.
TheChairpersonoftheCommissionwishestorecallthat,inthecommuniquissuedfollowing
the inauguralStatevisitofPresidentSalvaKiirMayardittotheRepublicofSudan,on8and9
October2011,
both
Governments
reaffirmed
their
principled
and
commendable
commitment
tobuildingstrategicandpermanentgoodneighborly relations.To thatend, theyagreedthat
neithercountrywouldpermitanyactofaggressionagainsttheotherandthatsecurityunitsin
bothcountrieswouldinvestigateandtakeimmediateactionwithregardtoaccusationsthetwo
countrieshavebeenlevelingagainsteachother.
TheChairpersonoftheCommissionstronglyappealstothetwoGovernmentstoliveuptotheir
commitmentasstatedinthatcommuniquandtoutilizemechanismssuchastheJointPolitical
andSecurityMechanism(JPSM)topeacefullysettletheirdifferences,regardlessofthenature
oftheproblemsthatmayarise.Inthisregard,itshouldbestressedthatonlybywayofgenuine
cooperationand
resorting
to
peaceful
means
in
dealing
with
those
problems,
would
Sudan
and
SouthSudanbe capableofbuilding twoviable States, in thebest interestof theirbrotherly
peoples.
TheChairpersonof theCommission reiteratesAUs resolve,especially through thecontinued
engagementof theAfricanUnionHighLevel ImplementationPanel (AUHIP),whosemandate
has recentlybeenrenewedbythePeaceandSecurityCouncil (PSC), toassisttheRepublicof
SudanandtheRepublicofSouthSudantoaddressthevariouschallengestheyface.