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From: John Ashworth <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 1:18 PM
Subject: [sudan-john-ashworth] Sudan blocks oil resumption
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“When we signed the cooperation agreement we thought it was going to
be implemented unconditionally. Now it appears that we have to
renegotiate its implementation again” - President Salva Kiir
1. Sudan Blocks South Sudan Oil Over Rebel Disarmament, Kiir Says
By Jared Ferrie
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) –- South Sudanese President Salva Kiir
said neighboring Sudan is demanding that his government disarm
rebels fighting the government in Khartoum before it allows the
south to restart oil exports.
“It is an impossible mission which our brothers in the
government in Khartoum would want us to undertake,” Kiir told
state governors today in the capital, Juba. “Because of this
Khartoum authorities have refused to accept passage of South
Sudan oil through their territory to market.”
The rebels in Sudan’s Blue Nile and oil-rich Southern
Kordofan states formerly fought with South Sudanese forces
during a two-decade civil war between the north and south that
ended in 2005.
South Sudan halted production in January after accusing the
northern government of stealing $815 million of its oil, which
Sudan said it took to recover unpaid transportation and
processing fees. That and other disputes, including over border
security, brought the countries to the brink of war in April.
South Sudan announced that crude would begin to flow by the
end of this month after the two countries reached agreements in
September on border security and oil fees.
Before the shutdown, South Sudan produced as much as
350,000 barrels a day. The oil is pumped mainly by China
National Petroleum Corp., Malaysia’s Petroliam Nasional Bhd. and
India’s ONGC Videsh Ltd.
South Sudan ships its oil through northern pipelines to an
export terminal on the Red Sea.
“When we signed the cooperation agreement we thought it
was going to be implemented unconditionally,” Kiir saod. “Now
it appears that we have to renegotiate its implementation
again.”
Kiir said during a conversation two days ago, Sudanese
President Umar al-Bashir promised to invite South Sudanese
officials to Khartoum to negotiate border security issues.
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2. South Sudan says Sudan refuses to route southern oil exports
JUBA | Mon Nov 26, 2012 5:52am EST
(Reuters) - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir said on Monday Sudan
had refused to accept routing southern oil exports through its
territory after making "impossible" demands.
Khartoum had demanded South Sudan needed to disarm rebels fighting the
Sudanese government as a condition, Kiir told government officials in
Juba.
"It is an impossible mission which our brothers in the government in
Khartoum would want us to undertake. Because of this, Khartoum
authorities have refused to accept passage of South Sudan oil through
their territory to market," he said.
(Reporting by Hereward Holland; Writing by Ulf Laessing; editing by Jason Neely)
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3. South Sudan’s oil “may take time to resume” due to Khartoum’s
“impossible” demand, Kiir says
November 26, 2012 (JUBA) – The president of South Sudan, Salva Kiir
Mayardit, warned on Monday that the lifeline of his country’s nascent
economy, oil exports, may take time to resume due to demands by
neighboring Sudan that Juba disarms the rebel Sudan People’s
Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N)
Speaking at the opening session of the governors’ forum at Freedom
Hall in the capital Juba, Kiir described Khartoum’s demand as
impossible, saying that disarming the rebels is “not our
responsibility”
“The SPLM-N has been recognized by the AUHIP [African Union High Level
Implementation Panel] as having a political base that needs a
solution. The SPLM-N should instead be negotiating directly with Sudan
government,” Kiir said.
He went on to add: “This is impossible. We are in a different country
and SPLM-N is in a different country. How can a foreign army cross to
another country and disarm forces there? It cannot happen.”
Land-locked South Sudan has recently postponed its plans to resume oil
production via Sudan after Khartoum insisted, during talks between the
two countries on implementing a border security deal involving the
establishment of a 10-km buffer demilitarized zone along their 1800-km
common borders, that Juba disarms the SPLM-N which controls parts of
the borders in Sudan’s southern regions of South Kordofan and Blue
Nile, where the insurgents have been fighting the government for the
past 16 months.
Sudanese officials said that resumption of oil exports hinges on Juba
severing its ties with the rebels who fought as part of South Sudan’s
army during the second Sudanese civil war whose end with the 2005’s
Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) paved the way for South Sudan’s
secession from Sudan in July last year. But Juba says SPLM-N is no
longer a part of South Sudan army and receiving no support from it.
The security deal was agreed along with 8 other agreements covering a
host of post-secession issues under AUHIP mediation in the Ethiopian
capital Addis Ababa on 27 September.
Despite the security deadlock, however, President Kiir said that all
efforts are underway to negotiate with Khartoum. He further reiterated
South Sudan’s commitment to peaceful resolution of the conflict
between the two
nations.
“We are still negotiating with our neighbor. Last week, we sent a
letter to Khartoum communication our readiness to discuss the Joint
Political and Security Mechanism to resolve all these issue. President
Bashir [Sudanese leader] called me to confirm he received the letter,”
Kiir said.
South Sudan shut down its oil production in January this year
following a bitter dispute with Khartoum over the fees required to
export its oil through pipelines and export terminals in Sudan. Prior
to the shutdown, oil revenues accounted for up to 98% of the country’s
annual budget.
Kiir cautioned that in light of the current impasse over security, oil
exports “may take time to resume”. He deplored the fact that South
Sudan is still dependent on imports of food commodities from the
neighboring countries in order to feed its people. He also said that
the country exports none item and plans for resumption of oil was not
stopped.
He urged the governors of his country’s ten states to work hard and
ensure South Sudan becomes economically independent and food secure by
2014.
In South Sudan, only 4% of the country’s arable land is effectively
utilized for agricultural activities, yet the sector accounts for
nearly 80 percent of economies of rural households.
South Sudan is classified as one of the poorest countries in the world
despite its great potentials and has continued to maintain some of the
worst indicators of countries that are backward.
For instance, 73% of men and 84% of women are illiterate; 4.7 million
of its 8 million populations are food insecure; 50% of its civil
servants are estimated to lack the appropriate qualifications and 87%
of the population lack access to basic health care.
A 15 year-old girl has a higher chance of dying in childbirth than
finishing school while the country has the highest maternal mortality
rate in the world with 2,054 per 100,000 live births.
Only 110km of road are estimated to be paved in the whole country
while an estimated 7,000km of roads are expected to be constructed and
paved.
(ST) http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article44655
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