SOUTH SUDAN / PAGAN AMUM

Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) Secretary General Pagan Amum today said that South Sudan is insisting on a return to border demarcation and Abyei area negotiations with neighbouring Sudan before any discussion on the current oil dispute can begin. UNMISS

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:24
• Production Date: 31 January 2012
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN SOUTH SUDAN – UNMISS
• Subject Topical: POLITICAL AFFAIRS; LAW; INTERNATIONAL LAW; POLITICAL CONDITIONS; POLITICAL CONDITIONS; POLITICAL MOVEMENTS; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; PEACE AND SECURITY
• Geographic Subject: SUDAN; SOUTH SUDAN
• MAMS Id: U120131e

Description

STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / PAGAN AMUM
TRT: 2:24
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS

DATELINE: JANUARY 31, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, President Salva Kiir arriving with Ethiopian delegation
2. Med shot, supporters welcoming the President
3. Wide shot, government greeting Salva
4. Wide shot, President Salva Kiir leaving Juba airport
5. Med. shot, Pagan Amum
6. Wide shot, Press conference hall
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Pagan Amum Secretary General-Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM):
"On the ninth of February we are going back to Addis Ababa for negotiations, and the position we are taking to Addis Ababa is very simple, of course we need to demarcate the border between South Sudan and Sudan, if there is any dispute we take it for international arbitration and we demarcate the border and bring the African Union and the UN to help us demarcate the border so that we do not have any dispute that may take us to war.”
8. Med shot, journalists
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Pagan Amum Secretary General-Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM):
"We will also be pursuing to resolve the problem of Abyei and ensure that Abyei is part of South Sudan and our people the Ngok Dinka people of Abyei can have peace at last. And we are committed to ensure that this problem is resolved and Abyei is accepted and recognized as part of South Sudan."
10. Med shot, journalists
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Pagan Amum Secretary General-Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM):
"The government of Sudan must commit themselves not to obstruct the flow of our oil, and they must make that commitment and this commitment must be enforced by the African Union and the UN."
12. Wide shot, journalists

Storyline

South Sudan is insisting on a return to border demarcation and Abyei area negotiations with neighbouring Sudan before any discussion on the current oil dispute can begin.

Speaking at a press conference in Juba town today after arriving from Ethiopia where the two countries held discussions on the current oil dispute alongside the Africa Union Summit, Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) Secretary-General Pagan Amum called on Sudan to pay for any oil revenues that are owed.

Sudan and South Sudan will soon resume negotiations in Addis Ababa under the auspices of the African Union High Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) to defuse the crisis over the sharing of oil revenues and to address other contentious issues that require an immediate resolution.

SOUNDBITE (English) Pagan Amum Secretary General-Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM):
"On the ninth of February we are going back to Addis Ababa for negotiations, and the position we are taking to Addis Ababa is very simple, of course we need to demarcate the border between South Sudan and Sudan, if there is any dispute we take it for international arbitration and we demarcate the border and bring the African Union and the UN to help us demarcate the border so that we do not have any dispute that may take us to war.”

Land-locked South Sudan became independent from Sudan last July after southerners voted overwhelmingly early last year to secede after decades of a military campaign for self-determination.

SOUNDBITE (English) Pagan Amum Secretary General-Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM):
"We will also be pursuing to resolve the problem of Abyei and ensure that Abyei is part of South Sudan and our people the Ngok Dinka people of Abyei can have peace at last. And we are committed to ensure that this problem is resolved and Abyei is accepted and recognized as part of South Sudan."

Amum also listed various conditions which included that Sudan should accept South Sudan’s offer price of 33 or 69 cents of a dollar per barrel. Sudan has been asking for 32.2 dollars per barrel fee for shipments leaving Port Sudan.

SOUNDBITE (English) Pagan Amum Secretary General-Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM):
"The government of Sudan must commit themselves not to obstruct the flow of our oil, and they must make that commitment and this commitment must be enforced by the African Union and the UN."

A day after halting her oil operations, South Sudan signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with neighbouring Kenya on an alternative oil pipeline yet to be constructed.

Last week (23 Jan) South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir announced that oil operations would stop that no crude oil belonging to his country would flow through the pipelines on the territory of Sudan.

A day after halting her oil operations, South Sudan signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with neighbouring Kenya on an alternative oil pipeline yet to be constructed.

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