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"Mr President, apart from the attention the conflict between Sudan and South Sudan deserves, my personal interest in seeking a solution is explained by the fact that I was one of the signatories to the comprehensive peace agreement concluded in 2005 in Nairobi, which I signed on behalf of the European Union.
The problems we are experiencing today were well known long before South Sudan gained independence and even when the agreement was signed five years ago. It is also recognised that there is no military solution to this conflict. What has changed is the scale of the conflict. Since South Sudan gained independence, this is no longer an intra-state dispute between two parties within a single state, but an international conflict. It is therefore international law which must provide the solutions.
I would therefore like to pay tribute to the European External Action Service, which did all it could do. That is to say, it focused its efforts on settling this matter in a way that would respect international law, while devoting all the instruments contained in its multiple tool box to the search for a solution to this conflict.
Following the various mediation attempts by the African Union, following the communiqués of the African Union Peace and Security Council, and following UN Security Council Resolution 2046, the markers along the way to a political settlement are now known. Consequently, the efforts of the African institutions are beginning to demonstrate their usefulness. The European Union has supported the capacity of Africa to take ownership of its own security interests since the early 2010s. Today, the European Union also remains an indispensable partner of the two countries resulting from the separation of Sudan.
The European Union, the principal humanitarian actor, the principal actor in development, the principal actor in the political dialogue with the Sudanese and the South Sudanese, holds one of the keys to the solution to the current conflict. One of the keys but not the only one. The EU is thus addressing one of the underlying causes of this desperate situation – poverty, extreme poverty – which undermines the foundations of any sustainable stability. The South Sudanese, as well as their partners in the North, are, however, jointly responsible for finding a solution to the conflict. They must rise to the occasion. It is not sufficient simply to have a state; it is also necessary to be able to manage it. The presence of the EU is much greater than its visibility. There is no solution, then, no alternative; the only possibility is a return to the conflict during which two million people were left to ‘snuff it’ – pardon the expression – against a background of general indifference, over a period of ten years."@en1
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