Sudanese President succession starts to South

JUBA, Sudan - pledged Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, the result of the forthcoming referendum, whether in the South should be an independent nation to respect raising hopes that Africa's largest country can avoid more bloodshed, even if it falls apart.

"If secession is the end result, we come and congratulate and to celebrate," said Mr Bashir Tuesday along with's South President Salva Kiir. Mr Bashir promised technical and logistical assistance to help, the South make the transition to independence.

Right links in Juba is welcomed on Tuesday AFP/Getty Images Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, the southern leader Salva Kiir.

Juba's most blocked soldiers and policemen few paved roads for Mr Bashir's arrival on Tuesday morning. While the official welcome was warm, its determination made in the South also secede. A major road and he stamped waved southern Sudan, the leading provider of small white flags the flag with a fingerprint and the word "Separation," to welcome feed people.

The referendum vote scheduled for Sunday January 9, is the culmination of a peace agreement between North and South, which has been forged in 2005. This agreement was followed by a civil war that displaced at least two million dead links and millions more.

The peace pact, a transitional Government for five years, according to which in the South, both sides agreed whether secede would agree. Mr Bashir, which is by the International Criminal Tribunal for war crimes, wanted in connection with massacres in Darfur, was first proposed in December could not recognize his Government a vote for secession, when the southern government unit and separation campaign not.

Now, in the South that independence is a fait accompli, Mr Bashir moved course and sought to dispel stress that cause could disrupt further unrest and oil supplies. "Establishing unit power failed," said Mr Bashir in his remarks. "The end result was more hatred, more Division, more enmity." …"We all are in dire need of peace."

Sudan is rich in oil, which comes mainly from the South through a pipeline to the North, where it is revised and sold. The two sides currently share revenue from oil - now at around 500,000 barrels per day pumps - as part of the peace agreement. Both rely heavily on oil to finance their respective Governments.

The peace agreement work Norway, the United States, United Kingdom - the three Western countries that help mortgaged - have encouraged Mr Bashir to support the referendum. The United States, for example, offered to Sudan from its list of State sponsors of terrorism, to remove, if Mr Bashir, helped to ensure a peaceful vote.

Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Karti told reporters at the United Nations in New York last month that he U.S. incentives sincere, were "hopes", "because we had so many promises. above"

Southerners have been long in the North, the hat has kept not promise in the past. But on Tuesday, officials were more receptive to the comments made by President Bashir.

"He said he would be the first to recognize an independent southern Sudan", Barnaba Marial Benjamin, the southern Government spokesman said. ", The people of southern Sudan made very happy."

-Joe Lauria at the United Nations contributed to this article.

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