Severe political and economic situations in South Sudan have resulted from Juba's tactical procrastination to implement the joint cooperation agreement signed by the Sudanese and South Sudanese Presidents last year in Addis Ababa. In public, Juba is committed to the agreement, but actually it is uncommitted. Juba doesn't want to implement the security arrangements to lose its allies in South Kordofan and Blue Nile. If South Sudan had honestly executed the security arrangements, it would have exported its oil via Sudan to international markets and resolved its economic crisis. United Nations, United States and the European Union are no longer interested to pay their financial pledges to South Sudan. The latter, therefore, has run out of hard currencies to meet it financial obligations. Some South Sudanese leaders think that the Americans are planning to bring new leaders who know the interests of their country and super powers. President Salva Kiir has told a European official about his fear of imminent collapse of his government due to financial and economic problems. She advised him to be easy with Sudan. The execution of the joint cooperation agreement was the only way out of the differences with Sudan at security, social and economic levels. Sudan Sudan has envied the newly launched oil fields in South Kordofan which is expected to produce 10,000 bpd within three months. Sudan however has a way out, while Juba is still seeking an outlet. Resentfully, Juba has been using oil to pressure Sudan for more concessions, forgetting that Sudan has many alternatives and is rich in its resources. This miscalculation has forced South Sudan to accept the summit between Presidents Al Bashir and Salva Kiir in the Ethiopian capital. Three months have passed and no dramatic change has occurred in Sudan as Juba has expected. South Sudan has felt mistaken for obstructing the agreement and the waste of time, so it has swiftly welcomed the summit to salvage the agreement.
