Bashir agrees to Friday summit with S. Sudan

Sudans President Omar al-Bashir has agreed to attend a summit on Friday with his South Sudanese counterpart to push stalled economic and security deals, official media said.The meeting, which the SUNA news agency said is slated for the Ethiopian capital, would be the first since Bashir and South Sudans President Salva Kiir late September signed the deals which they hailed as ending the conflict but which have not been put into effect.The two countries fought along their undemarcated border in March and April.In a report late Tuesday, SUNA said Bashir has accepted the invitation by Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn to meet with Bashir in Addis Ababa.Sudans presidential press secretary, Emad Sayed Ahmed, told SUNA that the meeting would discuss means of speeding up the implementation of the issues agreed upon at the summit between the two presidents three months ago.Khartoum accuses South Sudan of supporting rebels inside its territory, which has been a major obstacle to implementing the agreements.The South, in turn, says Sudan backs rebels on southern soil.Tensions have persisted along the border, most recently last week when Sudans military said armed groups from South Sudan clashed with Arab tribesmen in Samaha, one of five areas disputed by Khartoum and the Souths government in Juba.