Bashir expects a peace agreement with the rebels within one week

Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir expected to reach during one week a final peace agreement between the government and the southern rebels.

In a press conference held in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, where he had met with his Yemeni counterpart and Ethiopia's prime minister, that great progress was achieved in the negotiations between the two sides at Nivasha resort in Kenya.

The optimism expressed by the Sudanese President comes at a time when his vice president, Ali Othman Taha, and the leader of the souther rebels, John Garang, are trying to draw the final touches on the wealth- share agreement.

A work group was assigned to draw one document as a draft agreement for the three areas of Jibal al-Nouba; the south of the Blue Nile and Eibi.