Sudan, CAR underline need for further coordination in border areas
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA)- Sudan and Central African Republic (CAR) on Monday underlined they are determined to foster bilateral relations in security, sovereign and executive levels and to strengthen border security cooperation.
This was done when Lt.-Gen. Abdul Fatah Burhan, the president of the Transitional Sovereign Council, on Monday received the visiting CAR Minister for Defense, Ms. Marie Noelle Koyara, who is currently on a state visit to the Sudan.
Koyara met earlier with the Minister for Defense and with senior other military officials and with the Prime Minister before her encounter with Burhan.
Sudan has been brokering a peace deal among the warring CAR parties with some success. Burhan said his country appreciated the confidence shown by CAR on Khartoum as regards the mediation to resolve security problems that faced their country.
He renewed Sudan's strong stance in coordination and cooperation with African neighbors, the AU and international community to encourage CAR belligerents come together in support of the February 2019 Khartoum Peace Agreement.
The CAR minister has meanwhile been quoted by the official Sudan News agency, SUNA, as praising Sudan solid stand and continuous Support for CAR in the economic, agriculture, commerce and defense areas.
She further commended Sudan's role in concluding the peace agreement between the government and the armed movements in CAR.
Sudan’s Minister of Defense, Lt.-Gen, Jamal-Edin Omer Mohamed Ibrahim, and his CAR counterpart, Koyara, have earlier discussed ways to develop bilateral Military cooperation with Sudan.
The agency said the defense ministers’ talks discussed the issues of mutual concern, especially questions related to joint boarders’ security which was, the agency said, one of the concerns that “require tight coordination in order to achieve better results.”
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