Sudan's ruling party slams reported oil deal between South Sudan, Israel Al-Ra'y al-Amm Khartoum, 22/1/2013 – The member of the [ruling] National Congress Party's leadership office, Dr Qutbi al-Mahdi, has said that the timing of the announcement by South Sudan that it had agreed to sell its oil to Israel had torpedoed the Addis Ababa agreement and was further an attempt by Israel to destroy any rapprochement between Khartoum and Juba. In an interview with Al-Ra'y al-Amm, Qutbi affirmed that the government would not allow South Sudan's oil to flow over Sudanese territory on to Israel. He said the Addis Ababa agreement had not stipulated who South Sudan sold its oil to, but this would not prevent the government from issuing a decision to protect its sovereignty by banning the export of oil over Sudan to Tel Aviv. Dr Qutbi said Juba had timed this announcement so that it could push South Sudanese negotiators to adopt an inflexible position and render ineffective the "oil card" especially considering that the Sudanese government had continued to link between resuming oil exportation and the implementation of the security arrangements and severing ties between South Sudan the [rebel] Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North [SPLM-N]. Dr Qutbi went on to say that he did not expect the Juba-Tel Aviv agreement would have an effect on the Sudanese economy, we have prepared our budget without taking the least account of South Sudan's oil, he explained. In this vein, the spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Al-Ubayd Ahmad Murawah, told Al-Ra'y al-Amm yesterday that so far, this agreement to sell South Sudanese oil to Israel had not been confirmed, however if it is true, then we will deal with it when it happens, he added.
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