JUBA, Sudan (AFP)-l' organization of the United Nations demanded that Khartoum withdraw its troops from the Sudan Abyei district after the South marks an "invasion" by the troops of the North of the flashpoint border region.
A visit to the UN Security Council delegation said Sunday that they were "very, very concerned about the rapid deterioration of the situation in Abyei" and officially called on Khartoum to withdraw its troops.
"The members of the Security Council to ask the Government of the Sudan to halt its military operation and immediately withdraw from Abyei town and its surroundings," the France Ambassador to the United Nations, Gerard Araud, told a press conference jointly in Khartoum with his counterparts of the Russia and the United States.
A Chief, Ban Ki-moon has urged both sides to withdraw from the Abyei.
"The Secretary-General calls on both parties to immediately cease military operations, to withdraw all forces and armed elements Abyei and to refrain from further acts of antagonism," said a statement from his Office.
The European Union joined the growing chorus of condemnation over the seizure as a threat to peace between Sudan to the North and South in the run-up to the international recognition of the independence of the South in July.
"I condemn the violent incidents in Abyei in recent days," Chief Catherine Ashton, political foreign of the European Union said, stressing that it violated the 2005 comprehensive peace agreement (CPA) signed between the two parties to put an end to the civil war.
"I therefore appeal to all parties to settle their disputes in the CPA", added the statement.
The EU Foreign Ministers would review the crisis at their meeting in Brussels on Monday, she added.
Abyei was granted special status under the CPA that ended 22 years of devastating civil war between North and South, and it requires that the two sides to protect their troops up to a vote on its future.
"We control of Abyei and the entire region (Bahr al-Arab) North of the Bank of the River," Minister of Khartoum State to the Presidency, Amin Hassan Omer, told a press conference in Khartoum.
"It is because there are still elements of SPLA (Southern?)" s of the people of Sudan? (s Liberation Army) attempts to enforce his presence in Abyei and this is not acceptable according to the Protocol of Abyei and the CPA. ?
Government of southern Sudan has dismissed the allegation as an "absolute lie" and warned that turn to the "illegal occupation" Northern Abyei risked to switch the country to a conflict that would threaten the lives of thousands.
It is an illegal invasion and breaks all the agreements of the peace, endangering life of thousands of civilians, has "declared Minister of information of the South Sudan Barnaba Marial Benjamin."
"This event is a plan long term of the Government in Khartoum," he said, accusing the troops of the North of "fire on carnage of looting houses", that he appealed to peacekeepers of the United Nations to "come out of their bunkers."
"Women and children are victims at the hands of the invading army who does?". t care, "he said." "" "They are hungry, who need drugs and heavy rains out homeless."
Spokesman of the SPLA Philip Aguer already said: "" people have fled the region, because the bombing was indiscriminate - bombs and air tanks on the ground. ""
Faithful to the SPLA troops had retreated in the South of the district of dispute on the border with the North, he added.
Britain Sunday joined the United States and the EU in condemning the move of the North in the district of contested.
"I condemn the recent military actions in and around Abyei, including the attack on Abyei town by the Sudanese armed forces, on 21 May and the joint attack on a Sudanese armed forces convoy of the UN on 19 May and""," said Foreign Secretary William Hague.
Fighting stopped later Sunday, a one spouse - the peacekeeping force said.
"This morning, there were still some ground fighting and exchanged shots, but he seems calm returned in the afternoon, said Kouider Zerrouk.".
Aid agency doctors without borders, which goes to health clinics, in the town of Abyei and 40 km (25 miles) South of Agok said in a statement the "the entire population of the town of Abyei fled the city."
Her Agok clinic had received 42 people injured by Saturday evening.
Fighting in Abyei were opposite the enemies of the former civil war against each other since January when the district was due to vote on its future alongside a referendum on independence for the South, which delivered a landslide for secession.
But the plebiscite was postponed indefinitely as the North and South disagree on who should be eligible to vote in an area where conflicting loyalties and land disputes keep high voltages.
The delegation of the United Nations Security Council met Sunday with representatives of the Government of Khartoum but neither Minister for Foreign Affairs Ali Karti, which was supposed to lead discussions, nor Vice President Ali Osman Taha was present.
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