African Union praises commitment of Sudanese parties to Abyei ruling
July 24, 2009 (ADDIS ABABA) – The African Union today welcomed the commitment of the Sudanese parties to abide by the decision of Abyei arbitration court and to implement it.
The dominant National Congress Party and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) agreed in June last year to refer their dispute over the findings of Abyei Boundary Commission to the Permanent Court of arbitration (PCA) and formed Abyei Arbitration Tribunal in July 2008.
The court stated that the boundary of the disputed Abyei area saying that the nine Dinka Ngok chiefdoms belong to southern Sudan and reattached the Heglig oil field to the state of South Kordofan.
“The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union (AU), Jean Ping commends the Government of the Sudan and the Sudanese Peoples’ Liberation Movement (SPLM) for having accepted to abide by, and implement the ruling of the Permanent Court of arbitration on Abyei,” said a statement issued today in Addis Ababa.
Ping also commended PCA for its ruling issued on 22 July 2009 after the signing of the ‘Roadmap for the return of the internally displaced people and implementation of the Abyei Protocol’ on 08 June 2008, the statement further said.
He also said that the end of Abyei dispute would pave the way toward the resolution of the outstanding issues in the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, stressing that the African Union will remain committed in working together with the parties toward the successful implementation of the CPA.
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African Union praises commitment of Sudanese parties to Abyei ruling
It is important for the world to know that Heglig oilfield has never been part of Abyei or Kordofan region. This has been a deliberate technical mistake made when the map of the oilfields in Sudan were made by Northern Sudanese to give an impression that the oil discovered in Sudan is in Northern Sudan. Bentiu was renamed Wahdah meaning unity in Arabic for reasons underneath it there is plenty of oil. All these information has been part on misinformation to lie to the world community that the resources of Bentiu are actually Northern Sudan resources which trully are not. This information is wrong because the near future map demarcation of North Sudan and South Sudan will be thrown out of its reality when the 1956 map proves that Heglig is indeed part of South Sudan. To us it is important our land stay it was in 1956. Hufrat al nahas in Raga, Heglig are some of the areas we are concerned with before 2011 referendum takes place just because the Arabs in Sudan are land grabbers.