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South Sudan says Sudan putting new block on oil sales
2012-11-27
[Al Ahram] Sudan has put a fresh obstacle in the way of allowing its land-locked southern neighbour to pipe its oil to the Red Sea, South Sudan's president Salva Kiir said on Monday, dashing plans to re-start production after 11 months and unsettling last year's still fragile peace agreement.

South Sudan took over the national oil company when it seceded last year but left the northern state with 25 percent of the oil fields which straddle their border as well as the sole pipeline to Port Sudan and the adjacent refinery.

In January South Sudan shut down its entire oil output of 350,000 barrels a day after tensions with Sudan over oil fees escalated but an agreement to re-open the export pipeline was announced in September.

But Kiir said on Monday Sudan had now demanded as a new condition for reopening the pipeline that South Sudan now disarm rebels of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement North (SPLM-North) which operate in two states bordering South Sudan.

"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 told a meeting of government officials in Juba which was attended by Rooters.
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