Assembly/AU/Decl.3(XVI) Page 3 States, and the demarcation of the common border and resolution of the status of disputed areas. We urge the parties to proceed rapidly to agree on postreferendum issues, including citizenship, security, a soft border, and all questions relating to economics and natural resources; 12. We express Africa’s solidarity with the entire Sudanese people, and welcome equally North and South Sudan and the emerging post-referendum situation, as building blocks for the ongoing project of African integration. Having achieved peace, the Sudanese people are now able fully to participate as effective actors and beneficiaries in the common African endeavour of shared prosperity and continental unity.