Juba, a series of conditions set for the withdrawal of "Heglig"
04-13-2012 01:47 AM
Said the Minister of Information in the State of South Sudan Barnabas Marial Benjamin Thursday that his government has developed a series of conditions for withdrawal from the area of Heglig, disputed with Khartoum, and between these conditions the withdrawal of Sudanese forces from the Abyei area disputed oil also between the two countries, and the immediate cessation of all attacks land and air by Khartoum, and the deployment of international observers along the border demilitarized zone to be agreed on the demarcation of the common border between the two countries under international arbitration.
And had already said the President of South Sudan Salva Kiir on Thursday morning, he would not order his troops to withdraw from Heglig as asking him by the Security Council and the African Union.
Come these developments against the backdrop of the turbulent situation between North and South Sudan, has said a government source in southern Sudan that the Sudanese army bombed on Thursday the city of Bentiu, the capital of Unity state in southern Sudan near the border with the North and the oil-rich, in the first air raid on an area of importance in South Sudan.
Deputy Information Minister Adam Adam Yak, "They threw grenades at Bentiu and were targeting a bridge it seems," according to the agency "AFP."
According to Adam was thrown at dawn on Thursday five bombs on the bridge that links Bentiu road leading to the north, located at a distance of Bentiu, about sixty kilometers from the border with Sudan, which is witnessing heavy fighting since Tuesday between the two neighbors.
The Deputy Minister said, "no one was hurt, but the army of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (South Sudan) sent a team to investigate." "This matter does not surprise us, they are trying to find excuses to wage a new war."
In the last few days has escalated tensions between the two countries, and fought battles at the border north of Bentiu in the Heglig oil field, which provides much of the oil production for the North and demanded by the South Sudan.