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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Sudan to consider north-south confederation Reuters - Sunday, July 11 Send IM Story Print By Andrew Heavens KHARTOUM - Northern and southern Sudanese leaders said on Saturday they would consider forming a confederation or a common market if southerners chose to declare independence in an upcoming referendum. Citizens of the country's oil-producing south are six months away from a vote on whether to stay part of Sudan or split away as an independent state -- a plebiscite promised in a 2005 accord that ended decades of north-south civil war. Leaders from the dominant northern and southern parties on Saturday started formal negotiations on how they would divide oil revenues and other issues after the referendum. They told reporters they were considering four options suggested by an African Union panel led by former South African president Thabo Mbeki. In one option "we considered the possibility of the creation of two independent countries which negotiate a framework of cooperation, which extends to the establishment of shared governance institutions in a confederal arrangement," said Mbeki, who spoke at the launch of negotiations in Khartoum. Another option was for two separate countries with shared "soft borders that permit freedom of movement for both people and goods," said Mbeki. The other two options, he added, were for total separation - - with citizens needing visas to cross the border -- and for continued north-south unity, if southerners chose that option in the referendum. "These told reporters. RELATIONSHIP RESET Pagan Amum, the secretary general of the south's dominant Sudan People's Liberation Movement , said the referendum would allow the south to "reset" its troubled relationship with the north, whether southerners chose unity or separation. "If the choice is separation, then we will be ensuring that there will be good cooperation between the two independent states. It could take the form of a confederation. It could take the form of a common market," he said. The parties said they would spend the next months working out how they would share oil and other assets, as well as the burden of Sudan's debt, after the vote. Also on the agenda was the citizenship of their populations -- campaign group Refugees International last month warned southerners in the north and northerners in the south might be left stateless and vulnerable to attacks after a split. Amum said the parties also had to agree on a separate list of issues before the vote including the position of their north- south border and the members of a commission to organise a referendum on the status of the sensitive Abyei border area. Many commentators say southerners, embittered by decades of civil war, are likely to vote for separation in the referendum, due in January 2011. Sudan's president Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the head of the NCP, has promised to campaign for unity. Most of Sudan's proven oil reserves are south of the border. 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