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To: Tomas who wrote (618)	11/29/1999 12:13:00 PM
From: Tomas	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1713

Sudan says pipeline attack launched from neighbouring state KHARTOUM, Nov 29 (AFP) - The Sudanese government charged Monday that an attack on an oil pipeline was launched from a neighbouring state and aimed at undermining a new agreement with an opposition party. Information Minister Ghazi Salah Eddin Atabani, quoted in Monday's As-Sahafa daily, did not name the state but he was understood to mean Saturday's attack was mounted from Eritrea, where the opposition is based. The government has "full information on the operation which was launched from a neighbouring state that has been sponsoring such terroristic operations," said Atabani, who is also government spokesman. "This cowardly attack was expected after the great achievement of the Djibouti agreement" signed by the government and Umma Party on Friday, Atabani said. "This grave, subversive act was intended to undermine the agreement." The three-page deal was signed in Djibouti on Friday by Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Othman Ismail and Mubarak al-Fadl, secretary of external relations for the Umma Party. The "declaration of principles for a comprehensive political solution" was signed in a bid to end the strife in Sudan, whose south has been torn by civil war between the government and opposition for more than 16 years. The principles include a four-year transition period, followed by a referendum in southern Sudan on voluntary unity with the north. The agreement does not cover other opposition groups. Both Atabani and a top official of the energy and mining ministry, Hassan Mohamed Ali al-Tom, said the sabotage Saturday night would not impede oil supplies. Tom said on Sudanese television Sunday that fuel supplies through the pipeline would not be affected as there were enough stocks in Khartoum for a week. The eight-inch-diametre pipeline was built in 1974 to carry imported and refined oil products, mainly gasoline, from Port Sudan on the Red Sea to Khartoum. Another 28-inch, 1,610-kilometer (1,000 mile) pipeline was built this year to carry crude exports from fields in Higleig in southwest Sudan to the Beshair terminal on the Red Sea, about 25 kilometers (15 miles) south of Port Sudan. A section of that pipeline was damaged last September in a bomb attack claimed by the armed opposition.