South Sudan and Sudan agreed on Tuesday night to hold a meeting of the Joint Security Committee this month to discuss Khartoum’s accusations that Juba is supporting rebels from Darfur and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement – North operating in South Kordofan and Blue Nile.

South Sudan’s Foreign Affairs Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin joined his counterpart Ali Karti in Khartoum this week for initial discussions on these issues.

“Our approach is to work on what we agreed on and search for a way to resolve the issues that we did not agree on,” Karti said during a press conference after the summit. “It was agreed that the Joint Security Committee must be given a go ahead and entrused with the work to resolve the various security problems and draw the zero line” between the two countries.