Khartoum — Foreign minister Ali Karti has reiterated Sudan's demand to implement all the cooperation agreements on the same time, as his countries refuses to allow the exportation of South Sudanese oil while Juba continues its alleged support to rebel groups.

Karti was speaking before the African Union Peace and Security Council (PSC) in a meeting held in Addis Ababa on Monday where the former South African president Thabo Mbeki briefed the 15-member body about his recent visits to Khartoum and Juba to ease tensions between the two countries.

Karti told the meeting that "The cooperation agreements between the two countries should be implemented as one package without any selectivity", said the Sudanese ambassador to the African Union Abdallah Wadi who was speaking to the official SUNA from Addis Ababa.

Khartoum says Juba should also commit itself to the security arrangements including the end of its support to the rebel groups and the activation of the buffer zone. Regarding the second point Sudan says Juba refuses to accept the colonial borders of some disputed areas and makes it difficult to establish the centreline of the demilitarized zone.

Sudanese president Omer Al-Bashir last May said Juba continues to support the rebel groups and ordered to stop oil flow on 7 August. He however delayed the deadline for two weeks (22 August) following a visit by the Ethiopian foreign minister and the chairman of the AU panel to Khartoum.

Wadi said that the minister expressed hopes that Juba uses this opportunity to take the necessary measures and remediate the issues that led to suspend oil flow through the Sudanese territory.

Juba denies providing any support to the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) rebels and accuses Khartoum of supporting a rebellion in Jonglei state led by David Yau Yau. But Sudanese officials keep repeating that such denial does not fit with the reality.

According to Wadi, Mbeki told the PSC meeting that the accusations of support to rebel groups hindered the implementation of the cooperation agreements signed on 27 September 2013.

SPLM-N REBELS IN ADDIS ABABA.

The Sudan People's Liberation Movement -North (SPLM-N) on Monday announced that its leadership has arrived in Addis Ababa for consultations with the African Union chief mediator Thabo Mbeki who is tasked with the conflict in Blue Nile and South Kordofan.

SPLM-N leader Malik Agar, his deputy Abdel Aziz El-Hilu and secretary-general Yasir Arman arrived on Monday and met with Mbeki. They will also meet with the Ethiopian officials and the members of the AU peace and security council.

In a press statement released after their arrival, Arman said the SPLM-N message to the regional and international parties that "Sudanese people are fed up with partial solutions which have harmed the present and the future of Sudan".

The SPLM-N and its allied rebel groups call for a comprehensive process including the opposition parties to discuss a solution to the conflicts in Darfur, Blue Nile and South Kordofan and to re-establish a democratic regime in Sudan.

This approach which supported by some western countries, has been recently rejected by the PSC which calls to settle the regional conflicts first and to proceed with the democratic reforms after that.