(Agencies)
Informed source stated that the NCP and the SPLM agreed on establishing a joint political panel to deal with the disputed issues, adding that the two partners agreed on 60% as a qualifying percentage for the referendum.

On the issue of popular consultation that source said it is agreed that the deliberation over the issue is to be postponed.

It is to be noted that the SPLM MPs will resume attending the parliament sessions as of tomorrow after their recent walkout.

The session of the National Assembly of tomorrow will witness a joint tabling of the pending draft bill before the parliament.

It is worth mentioning that the Council of Ministers started in its yesterday's emergency session discussing some of the disputed bills on top of which is  the referendum of South Sudan after that agreement reached yesterday by the Presidency over the pending issues.

Council of Ministers Secretary-General, Omar Mohammed Saleh affirmed that the Cabinet will discuss the referendum, Abyei and popular consultation for South Kordufan and Nuba Mountains draft laws.

Meanwhile, (NCP) and (SPLM) agreed on a bill of referendum for southern Sudan, senior officials of the NCP and the SPLM announced on Sunday.
The bill paved the way for the referendum scheduled for January 2011 to decide whether southern Sudan would break away from Sudan.     
The officials said the agreement was reached during a meeting of the two parties chaired by Sudanese President and NCP Chairman Omar Al Bashir and First Vice President and SPLM Chairman Salva Kiir, following marathon consultations in the past few days.

The bill is to be handed over to the parliament for approval, the officials said at a joint news conference.

"We have reached full agreements on the southern Sudan referendum bill," said Nafie Ali Nafie, deputy NCP chairman at a joint press conference with SPLM Secretary General Pagan Amum.

Nafie said the two sides had also reached agreements on one bill of the popular consultation for Blue Nile and South Kordofan areas, and another on self-determination referendum for Abyei area.

He added that all agreements reached by the two sides would be referred to other political parties in the country to consult on, expecting that the two sides would reach final agreements on bills of security and intelligence service in few days.