Sisi and Bashir consider difference over Halayib extended issue

Sudan’s Foreign Minister Ibrahim Al Ghandour said that Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi agreed with his Sudanese counterpart to consider Halayib triangle controversial issue as an extended issue and not to allow such issues to be a challenge on the way to strengthen relations between the two countries.

He added, in a press statement, that the two president called the foreign minister of the two countries to prepare executive and structural frameworks to pave the way for coordination on political, parliamentary and popular levels.

The statement came after a meeting between the two presidents on the sideline of the African Union Summit held currently in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa.

According to the statement, the meeting came to express the keenness of the two countries to resume their coordination during the coming period and to stress the privacy and strength of relations on both formal and popular levels.

The two presidents expressed their desire to increase their cooperation and to support the feelings of brotherhood and solidarity between the two peoples in the face of the common challenges.

On his hand, Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said that the two presidents discussed the ways to strengthen the bilateral relations and to increase cooperation to achieve the common interests on different sides.