Sudan urges Juba to cease backing rebels before to stop oil flow
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July 17, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party
(NCP) has called upon the government of South Sudan to speed up the
implementation of the cooperation agreement between the two countries
before stoppage of the flow of the southern oil through Sudan’s
territory.
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Sudan’s Vice President Ali Osman Taha (L) greets his South Sudanese
counterpart Riek Machar upon the latter’s arrival at Khartoum airport
on June 30, 2013. Machar and Talah discussed ways to ease tensions
after Khartoum threatened to halt oil flows. The two parties
recommitted themselves to the Cooperation Agreement and its
implementation. (Photo ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/Getty Images)
The call comes as the National Intelligence and Security Services
(NISS) continued Tuesday to email reports to the newspapers in
Khartoum about the arrival of rebels from South Kordofan to Juba
before to move to Kampala to attend a leadership meeting there, saying
the SPLA intelligence service is tasked with the operation.
NCP secretary of organization, Hamid Sideeg, on Tuesday demanded the
government of South Sudan to accelerate the implementation of the
cooperation agreement within the remaining period of the 60-day time
limit given by the Sudanese government to halt flow of southern oil
through Sudan’s territory.
In September 2012, both Sudan and South Sudan signed a series of
agreements labelled Cooperation Agreement, which covered several
outstanding issues including oil, citizenship rights, security issues,
banking, border trade among others.
Last March, the two countries signed an implementation matrix for
these cooperation agreements.
But lat moth the Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir ordered the
closure of all pipelines carrying oil from South Sudan within 60-day
period from the date of 9 June 2013 saying Juba keep providing harbour
and support to the rebel groups fighting the Sudanese army in Blue
Nile South Kordofan and Darfur.
Sideeg defended the decision to stop southern oil flow through Sudan’s
territory, saying that it is a wise and just decision which aims at
protecting Sudan’s interests.
He added that if the government of South Sudan is genuinely seeking to
achieve its interests, it must implement what has been agreed upon,
pointing that it has sufficient time to do so.
Last Friday South Sudanese officials in a meeting chaired by
vice-president Riek Machar discussed a new letter from the Sudanese
government received on 7 July reminding Juba that Khartoum still
waiting concrete steps on this issue of rebel groups.
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