On Thursday, South Sudan voiced its readiness to mediate between Sudan and Ethiopia to resolve recent tensions between the two countries over control of border areas.
These remarks came during a meeting between head of the Sudanese Transitional Sovereignty Council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and advisor of the President of South Sudan for Security Affairs, Tut Qalwak, during which, the latter affirmed that South Sudan President Salva Kiir's readiness to mediate between Sudan and Ethiopia for reaching a lasting political and diplomatic solution to the border issue in order to preserve fraternal relations between the two countries and maintain peace in the region.
Sudan and Ethiopia have long had problems along their border, whose demarcation was determined in agreements reached in 1902 and reaffirmed in 1972. A joint committee, set up last month to resolve the border dispute, has failed to make any progress, according to the Sudanese government.
The two countries are also bound by close cultural ties but, in various conflicts since the 1950's, both sides have supported rebel groups fighting the other’s government.
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