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SPLA accuses SAF of breaching Abyei agreement |
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
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The SPLA Spokesperson, Major General Peter Paryang assured that the SPLA has completed withdrawing its forces from Abyei, and is now moving southwards as agreed by the National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM).
He accused Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) by saying that it did not withdraw from Abyei as required by the recent Abyei Roadmap agreement.
Major General Peter Paryang said that SAF falls two days behind the deadline with the “SAF Battalion 31” still inside Abyei town.
On its part, the Director of the SAF Spokesperson’s office Lt. Colonel Al-Sawarmi Khalid Saad denied that SAF has breached the Roadmap agreement.
Al-Sawarmi added in an interview with Miraya Fm that there is a current ongoing coordination between the two parties to complete the withdrawal of their armies.
The Abyei Roadmap agreement states that SAF and the SPLA should complete withdrawal from Abyei by the end of June, in order to be replaced immediately by a batallion of the Joint Integrated Unit (JIU) and a special police force.
SAF and SPLA clashed in Abyei in May which resulted in the death and displacement of thousands of people.
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