59. Calls for the Union and its Member States to implement a concrete and effective mobility policy with the countries of the Southern Neighbourhood, in particular by simultaneously signing visa liberalisation agreements and readmission agreements similar to those signed with most countries of the Eastern Partnership; underlines, in this context, the importance of increasing mobility and cooperation in the field of academic education and vocational training, broadening and increasing the existing programmes and mobility of students, graduates, teachers and academics, and promoting exchanges between higher education and training institut ...[+++]ions, along with public-private partnerships in the field of research and enterprise; considers it essential to develop easier procedures for issuing visas to participants in such programmes; calls for the EU to develop a sensible and comprehensive strategy involving the EEAS, the Commission, Member States and partners in the Southern Neighbourhood to deal with migration and protect refugees and asylum seekers originating from the Southern Neighbourhood, especially in the light of the Arab Spring and continued instability in North Africa;

65. Reaffirms that, for the Southern partnership, the aim is to bring the two shores of the Mediterranean closer together with a view to establishing an area of peace, democracy, security and prosperity for their 800 million inhabitants, and to provide the EU and its partners with an effective bilateral and multilateral framework enabling them to overcome democratic, social and economic challenges, promote regional integration, in particular in relation to trade, and ensure their co-development for the benefit of all, as well as to assist partners in building democratic, pluralistic and secular states, especially through institutional-ca ...[+++]pacity building programmes, while also developing mutually beneficial, balanced and ambitious arrangements for trade in goods and services, preceded by the relevant impact assessments that can lead to DCFTAs; believes this will surely represent the first step towards a large ‘Euro-Mediterranean Economic Area’ that could also help to alleviate the economic problems of our neighbouring partners in the South and facilitate South-South integration;

1. Deplores the loss of life, violence, human rights abuses and lack of humanitarian access in Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile states; strongly condemns the SAF invasion of Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile states; urges all parties to immediately cease fighting and seek a political solution based on the agreement of 28 June 2011; further calls for the lifting of the state of emergency in Blue Nile State;

H. whereas humanitarian agencies have not been able to obtain authorisation to work in Southern Kordofan since the conflict broke out in June and needs assessments have not been carried out; whereas the Sudanese Government rejected the request for UN peacekeepers to stay in Southern Kordofan, Blue Nile and Abyei after the south's independence;

We are therefore appealing and requesting the Government of Canada to look into human rights violations in the Sudan, especially the random imprisonment of the southern Sudanese both in the south and in the north, and the forced Islamization and Arabization of people of southern Sudan by use of relief food by Sudanese Red Crescent and Dawa Islamia agencies as a weapon to achieve their objectives; to allow the media, religious leaders and heads of governments who wish to visit the southern Sudan, displaced camps in Khartoum and in the south, and any areas affected by war, disease and famine to move freely without hindrance.

We also ask that the Government of Canada request the SPLM/A to look into the human rights violations in the liberated areas of the southern Sudan, especially the mistreatment, imprisonment and killing of other tribes in the south who might differ with their ideology; the imprisonment and killing of people suspected of spying and other minor crimes; not allowing media and agencies distributing relief food, medicine and clothing to go to all areas affected by war, disease and famine. Urge the international relief agencies, especially Canadian ones, to desist from being partisan in their help, whatever it is, to southern Sudanese ethnic ...[+++]groupings, wherever they may be in the liberated areas of the Sudan.