Angola, South Sudan sign verbal cooperation deal - AngolaPress

Luanda - The Republics of Angola and South Sudan Wednesday, in Luanda, signed a verbal process that sets future lines of cooperation between both African countries.

The agreement was signed by the Angolan minister of Foreign Affairs, George Rebelo Pinto Chikoti and Deng Alor Kuol, minister of the Office Affairs of the President of South Sudan.

On the occasion, the Angolan Foreign minister said that the signing of verbal agreement shows the will that exists between the governments of South Sudan and the Republic of Angola to continue to cooperate.

He stressed that this verbal process contains information that will guide the two governments for the eventual signing of a general cooperation agreement as well as other protocols and sectoral agreements in relations between both countries.

Georges Chikoti believes that these understandings reached with the corresponding expectation created around the future bilateral relations between Angola and South Sudan.

Meanwhile, the minister of Cabinet Affairs of the President of South Sudan, Deng Alor Kuol, expressed his satisfaction for being in Angola and signing this verbal process that will set the course of relations between the two countries.

He said that the signing of this verbal process opens the way for mutual cooperation between the two countries and reaffirmed his confidence that after this initial step will come many other agreements.

"We have many things in common and we walk together and we have signed agreements that meet the interests of both countries," he said.

South Sudan pointed as priorities for cooperation with Angola the area of defence and security, because it still has challenges such as home stability.

However, they have identified as possible areas of cooperation in mining, finance, defence, security and sports.

The delegation of South Sudan is in Angola since Monday and has begun talks with a multi-sectoral delegation of Angola, apart from holding several meetings with members of the Executive.

South Sudan or Southern Sudan, officially Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country located in Northeast Africa. It has this name due to geographical location, South Sudan.

 
What is now the South Sudan was part of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and became part of the Republic of Sudan, whose independence took place in 1956.

After the First Sudanese Civil War, South Sudan became an autonomous region in 1972. This autonomy lasted until 1983. The Second Sudanese Civil War, occurred years later, again resulted in the autonomy of the region through the Treaty of Naivasha, signed on January 9, 2005 in Kenya, with the People's Liberation Army in Sudan (SPLA / M).

On July 9, 2011, the South Sudan became an independent state. On July 14, 2011, the South Sudan became a member state of the United Nations (UN). The country joined the African Union on July 28, 2011.