اقتصاد شمال السودان سيظل قويا بعد الانفصال

Quote: SECRETARY CLINTON: That's right, and Assistant Secretary Johnnie Carson. It's really all hands on deck, so that we're trying to convince the North and South and all the other interested parties who care about the Comprehensive Peace Agreement to weighing in to getting this done. The timeframe is very short. Pulling together this referendum is going to be difficult. We're going to need a lot of help from NGOs, the Carter Center, and others who are willing to help implement the referendum. But the real problem is what happens when the inevitable happens and the referendum is passed and the South declares independence. So simultaneously, we're trying to begin negotiations to work out some of those intractable problems. What happens to the oil revenues? And if you're in the North and all of a sudden, you think a line's going to be drawn and you're going to lose 80 percent of the oil revenues, you're not a very enthusiastic participant, what are the deals that can possibly be made that will limit the potential of violence? And even if we did everything perfectly and everyone else – the Norwegians, the Brits, everybody who is weighing in on this – did all that they could, the reality is that this is going to be a very hard decision for the North to accept.