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May 19th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda “If the Sudan Armed Forces are refusing to get out of Abyei, they must be forced out. Otherwise the Republic of South Sudan will have the right to move back its forces into Abyei,” South Sudan Minister for Information and Government spokesman Barnaba Marial Benjamin said on Friday.
“We will move back SPLA (Sudan People’s Liberation Army) forces into Abyei if the Security Council is unable to remove the Sudanese Armed Forces out of Abyei,” he added.
The remarks came after the UN Security Council called on Khartoum in a resolution on Thursday to immediately pull back its forces from the disputed location.
The resolution further urged both Khartoum and Juba to reach an agreement on a joint administration and police forces for Abyei region.
This is while, Sudan has imposed a condition that it will do so after a joint military observer is appointed for the disputed region.
Sudan accuses South Sudan of supporting anti-government rebels operating in the Darfur region and the states of Blue Nile and South Kordofan.
However, South Sudan accuses the Sudanese army of launching air strikes and ground attacks on its territory over the past weeks, but Khartoum rejects the allegations.
Fighting between the two states erupted weeks ago along the border after several rounds of failed talks to resolve disputes over oil revenues, border demarcation and citizenship.
South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in July 2011 as part of a 2005 peace treaty, which ended decades of war between the two countries. Despite the treaty, the African neighbors are still at loggerheads over oil revenues and border demarcation.
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