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Sudanese forces out ofAbyei. Council requests UNISFA to report on compliance
with this decision, for further action by Council as necessary;
13.
Urges the Parties unconditionally to resume negotiations, under the auspices of the
AUHIP and with the support of the Chairman of IGAD,within two weeks, at a time to be set by
the Panel in consultation with relevant international partners, to reach agreement on the
following critical issues:
(i)
arrangements concerning oil and associated payments;
(ii)
the status of nationals of one country resident in the other, in accordance with
the Framework Agreement initialed in March 2012;
(iii)
resolution of the status of the disputed and claimed border areas and the
demarcation of the border; and
(iv)
the final status of Abyei.
14.
Decides that these negotiations must be concluded within three months of the adoption
of this decision. Should these negotiations fail to result in an agreement on any or all of the
issues identified above within the allotted timeframe of three months, Council requests the
AUHIP to submit to it a comprehensive report on the status of the negotiations, including
detailed proposals onall outstanding issues, to be endorsed as final and binding solutions to the
post‐secession relations. Council undertakes to seek the endorsement of, and support by, the
United Nations Security Council of the same;
15.
Further decides that failure by either Party to implement the provisions of the Roadmap
outlined in paragraph 12 above, or to cooperate in good faith with the Panel towards the
conclusion of the negotiations on the outstanding issues as enumerated in paragraph 13above,
will result in Council taking appropriate measures, as provided for in the Peace and Security
Council Protocoland the Constitutive Act of the AU, and to seek the support of the UN Security
Council and all AU partners to measures it may take;
16.
Reiterates AU’s convictionthat there can be no military solution to the conflict in
Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile, and stresses therefore the urgent need for a political and
negotiated solution,based on respect for diversity in unity. Council requests the Government of
Sudan and the SPLM‐North to extend full cooperation to the AUHIP and the Chair of IGAD, to
reach a negotiated settlement on the basis of the Framework Agreement on Political
Partnership between NCP and SPLM‐N and Political and Security Arrangements in Blue Nile and
Southern Kordofan States. Pending the convening of talks by the AUHIP, Council calls on the
Government to accept the tripartite proposal submitted by the African Union, the United
Nations and the League of Arab States, to permit humanitarian access to the affected
population in the two areas;