What’s after the approval!?

 Now after both cabinets of Sudan and South Sudan have approved the agreements, the two countries signed recently in Addis Ababa on post-secession issues, citizens of both countries await to see the details of the agreements when viewed on the two legislative bodies in Khartoum and Juba. However, despite the spirit of optimism about the agreements, which were described by many observers as historic, but that does not detract from the fact that they were signed as a result of international pressures, since the two sides were forced to do so by the Security Council resolution 2046, or if so to speak, by the threat of the resolution 2046, that the two sides have to reach a solution for their outstanding issues, or get sanctioned, should they fail to reach a deal on the borders issues as well as oil production, security and the contested Abyei area.

In fact, both countries were not in need for such pressures, and it was possible to achieve a peaceful agreement to prevent the two countries and their people of the lost time in the bickering, threats and conflicts.


The Addis Ababa agreements were signed by the heads of the two countries and witnessed by the two mediators, therefore, there is no doubt that the two legislative bodies in both Khartoum and Juba will approve the agreements, because there is no other way out.

What is most important now, other than the approval of the agreements is the implementation, we should remember that, the ongoing critical situation witnessed by the two countries is a result to the unimplemented agreements that signed between the two ruling parties in the two countries.

The government of the two countries should affirm their commitment and show strong political will to implement these agreements in order to establish constructive relations with each other and to end the differences between them and to take another important step on the path away from conflict toward a future in which the citizens of both countries can live in dignity, security, and prosperity.

We hope that the agreements can also help in reaching broader progress on resolving the conflict in Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile states, securing international humanitarian access in the two areas, and bringing final peace to Darfur.