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UNITED NATIONS, May 21 (KUNA) -- Sudan on Thursday warned that it reserves
the right to deter the repeated Chadian aggressions against its territory
committed in blatant disregard of all agreements concluded between the two
countries, the latest of which was the peace agreement they signed in Doha,
Qatar, earlier this month.
"As usual, the Government of Chad has abused the wisdom and restraint of
the Sudan by persisting in its impudence. We should like to emphasize to the
Council that the Government of the Sudan reserves its full and unrestricted
right to respond to the treacherous aggressions of Chad in a decisive and
deterrent manner so as to put an end to those provocative actions and maintain
the Sudan's honour and sovereignty and the security of its citizens," Sudan's
UN envoy Abdalmahmood A. Mohamad said in a letter to the Security Council
President, Russia.
"The Government of the Sudan is exasperated by and has grown weary of
Chad's continued hostile and reckless undertakings and of its attacks against
the sovereignty, territorial integrity and national security of the Sudan,"
Mohamad added in his letter.
He explained that three warplanes of the Chadian air force penetrated 60 km
inside the Sudan last Saturday and carried out an intensive aerial bombardment
of the area adjacent to Jabal Sindu, south of El Geneina, and repeated its
aggression the following day by indiscriminately bombarding the areas south of
El Geneina, spreading terror among innocent civilians.
He added that his Government reported those incidents to the ambassadors of
the council's five permanent members accredited to Khartoum, Ashraf Jehangir
Qazi, the UN Special Representative for the Sudan, and the representatives of
the African Union and the League of Arab States. (end)
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