CIAO DATE: 02/2011
January 2011
Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre
Making Cooperation Attractive: Post-referendum Relations between Egypt and the Sudan' is the outcome of a one-day policy workshop on future Sudanese-Egyptian relations. The referendum on the future of Southern Sudan is imminent, and policy options for Sudanese-Egyptian relations need urgently to be formulated and debated. Egypt will inevitably be affected by the Sudan's political transition. Egyptian policy-makers and diplomats struggle with fundamental contradictions in Egypt's regional status, competing priorities, and the need to stay on good terms with all parties in Sudan. Egypt must reshape its regional policy, but Egypt's national interests in the Sudan preclude neutrality in the processes ahead. It can, however, play a key role in a regional and international effort to secure the peaceful secession of Southern Sudan. It is important for the development of the whole region that Egypt finds a way to continue constructive interaction with political forces in both Northern and Southern Sudan.
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