Governors from Southern states bordering Northern Sudan are meeting in a two-day workshop to discuss ways to maintain peace and development on the border areas.
The Governors will seek the conditions under which peacefull co-existence, security, trade and development can be enjoyed by the communities living, moving and working on both sides of the border.GoSS legal affairs minister John Luk Jok, who facilitates the workshop, told SCR News that the governors of Northern and Western Barh el Ghazal, Warrap, Unity and Upper Nile will listen to experts on strategies for border management and security between the north and south Sudan.
Heavy clashes have recently increased along the north-south border states, in the disputed region of Abyei and South Kordofan.
The Sudanese Air Force planes launched repeated air strikes on SPLA positions in Unity state.
Mr. Luk said that such procedures of hostility seize the passion to a peaceful co-existence.
He added that President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir and President Salva Kiir Mayardit were in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, trying to sort out major difficulties for a lasting peace.
South Sudan is less than a month from its independence and the common border with the north not been completely demarcated.
Analysts have raised concern about a resumption of the two-decade civil war between the north and south due to border clashes.