"I am very delighted to be here in my second home, Juba. We are looking for a very strategic, very distinguished relationship between our two nations, and the sky is the limit for this relationship," Hamdok said upon his arrival. After the two-hour meeting, South Sudan's Foreign Minister Awut Deng said the two leaders had discussed issues that had never been resolved under the 2005 peace deal that ended two decades of war with Khartoum and paved the way to South Sudan's independence in 2011.
This includes the demarcation of the border between the two nations, trade issues and the movement of citizens. "I think the time has come for us in the two countries to silence the guns. War is no more an option for our people. We need to have peace, and sustainable peace in our two countries," said Deng.
"We can only do this in an environment where all of us have agreed to come out with a road map and work for peace." South Sudan plunged into its own war two years after independence that has left almost 400,000 dead and displaced millions.