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Security Council Urges Sudan, S. Sudan to End Hostilities
[An Nahar] The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday demanded an end to border attacks and hostilities between Sudan and South Sudan in a forceful warning to the rivals to ease mounting tensions.Amid widespread predictions that the two countries, which separated in July last year, could be headed for a new conflict, the council also demanded Sudan authorities allow humanitarian access to two conflict-stricken states. The council expressed "grave concern about reports of repeated incidents of cross-border violence between Sudan and South Sudan, including troop movements, support to proxy forces and aerial bombardments," said a statement read by Britannia's U.N. ambassador Mark Lyall Grant, council president for March. "The Security Council demands that all parties cease military operations in the border areas and put an end to the cycle of violence. "It further demands that the governments of Sudan and South Sudan take no action that would undermine the security and stability of the other, including through any direct or indirect form of support to gangs in the other's territory." Posted by: Fred 2012-03-07 |
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