SUDAN'S President Omar al-Bashir has arrived in South Sudan for the first time since his 2011 visit for the country's independence, a sign of easing tensions after bloody border battles last year.
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir, Bashir's former civil war foe and an ex-rebel commander, welcomed his counterpart at Juba airport as a military band struck up their respective national anthems.
Bashir was accompanied by several high-ranking officials, including Defence Minister Abdelrahim Mohammed Hussein, Interior Minister Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamed, Oil Minister Awad Ahmad al-Jaz and intelligence chief General Mohamed Atta al-Moula, according to Sudan's official news agency SUNA.
Bashir's visit "will be good for the future of the two countries", South Sudanese Information minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin said before Bashir's plane touched down on Friday.
"There should be peace between the two countries," he said.
"We are expecting good news from this visit," Ahmed Bilal Osman, Sudan's information minister, told SUNA.
He said the trip "comes at a propitious political time after signing the co-operation agreements in Addis Ababa" and that the problems between the two states "are on the way to being solved".
"The visit will break the barriers of lack of confidence and express good political will to implement what has been agreed.
"Our brothers in South Sudan will only hear good words from us. We are working to narrow the area of difference and to widen the area of agreement, to prevent anything negative in the relation between both sides."
The two nations battled over their un-demarcated border one year ago, with Khartoum's warplanes bombing the South, and Juba sending troops deep into disputed areas to battle Sudanese soldiers.
The fighting raised fears of wider war with intermittent clashes continuing for several months, but international pressure reined the two sides into an uneasy standoff.
At talks in Addis Ababa in March, Sudan and South Sudan finally settled on detailed timetables to improve relations by resuming the oil flows and implementing eight other key pacts including one for a demilitarised border buffer zone.
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