现在，我们认为，有良好理由希望双方不愿处理最终地位问题、甚至是临时行政当局问题的态度将有所改变。过去数月，我们看到，非洲之角地区各国与曾有过长期敌对关系甚至公开冲突的邻国接触的意愿发生明显转折。埃塞俄比亚同厄立特里亚之间的和解激发地区国家如果说不是解决其争端的话，起码也是愿意彼此协作以寻求解决。在处理困扰该地区、阻碍其发展和经济一体化或者加剧非洲之角政治不稳定的各种冲突方面，现在存在普遍的同侪压力。这种转折最明显的表现是喀土穆努力进行调解，以使南苏丹内部冲突的两个交战方达成协议。
We now believe that there is good reason to hope that the parties’ reluctance to deal with the final-status issue and even the interim administration issues will change. In the past few months, we have seen a remarkable shift in the willingness of the States of the Horn of Africa region to engage neighbours with which they had long-held hostile relations or even open conflict. The rapprochement between Ethiopia and Eritrea has triggered if not the resolution of disputes between the States of the region, then at least a willingness to engage each other to seek solutions. There is now pervasive peer pressure to deal with the conflicts that beset the region, hold back its development and economic integration, or exacerbate political instability in the Horn of Africa. This shift is nowhere better represented than by the efforts of Khatroum to mediate an agreement between the competing parties in the civil conflict in South Sudan.