中國敦促蘇丹、南蘇丹解決石油爭端

China has called on Sudan and South Sudan to resolve a dispute that has blocked the flow of oil exports from the south. Beijing purchases nearly five percent of its total oil imports from South Sudan. A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman on Tuesday urged the two Sudans to exercise "restraint" and use a "flexible and pragmatic approach" to settle their differences.

Landlocked South Sudan relies on its northern neighbor's pipelines and port on the Red Sea to export oil. Sudan said it halted South Sudan's oil exports because the newly independent south owes $730 million in transit fees. South Sudan has said Khartoum is charging transit and customs fees so high they amount to "economic war."中國呼籲蘇丹和南蘇丹解決已阻礙南蘇丹石油出口的爭端。北京的石油進口有將近5%來自南蘇丹。中國外交部的一位發言人星期二敦促蘇丹和南蘇丹保持“剋制”，並採用“靈活務實的方式”解決它們的分歧。

身處內陸的南蘇丹依賴北方鄰國蘇丹的石油管道和紅海港口出口石油。蘇丹表示，它阻止南蘇丹石油出口的原因是這個新獨立的國家欠蘇丹7億3千萬美元的過境費。

南蘇丹表示，喀土穆收取的過境費和海關費用太高，等同於對它發起“經濟戰”。