Sudan demands South Sudan to disarm Sudan People's Liberation Movement North (SPLM-North) to allow its oil pass through its territories

Salva Kiir+Omar Hassan al-Bashir

SudaneseOnline-South Sudan's president Salva Kiir revealed on Monday that Sudanese authorities had demanded disarming of Sudan People's Liberation Movement North (SPLM-North) to let South Sudan’s oil pass through its territories.

 Sudan’s government army fight against the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement –North (SPLM-N) in Blue Nile state since September 2011 following the failure of talks to end clashes between the two parties in the neighboring South Kordofan which had started in June last year.

During a meeting with the government officials in the capital, Juba, Kiir said:   "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,”

South Sudan's president pointed out that SPLM-North is in a different country.

“You cannot imagine that a foreign army can cross to another country to go and conduct disarmament. That can't be. It will not happen," he said.

South Sudan denies supporting the SPLM-North, which plans together with rebels from the western region of Darfur to topple Sudan's veteran president Omar Hassan al-Bashir.

Kiir indicated that he phoned al-Bashir two days to restart border security talks, confirming that latter assured him that he is going to direct the minister of defense to write now an invitation letter to our team in Juba so that they go to Khartoum to start negotiations, asserting that his country will maintain peace between the two countries and avoid any return to war.