The Centre for Peace and Justice (CPJ), a rights group in South Sudan, said the young nation’s current deadlock with Sudan over Abyei will only be resolved if international partners fully engaged the latter to accept an amicable solution to the final status of the disputed region.
CPJ's Coordinator Tito Anthony said in a statement extended to Radio Tamazuj today that the two Sudans have failed to reach an agreement on Abyei.
"Abyei problem should not be left to Sudan and South Sudan to solve it alone, because it was part of the CPA that was signed in 2005 and witnessed by both regional and international community,” he said.
"Since the two countries reached a deadlock then the international community needs to intervene with a new approach that will bring solutions," he added.
The rights group urged the international community to either recognize the referendum conducted in Abyei or come up with solutions to the dispute over Abyei.
Sudan and South Sudan are disputing the oil-rich Abyei, an area inhabited by Sudan's Arab Misseryia tribe and South Sudan's Ngok Dinka tribe.
In October 2013, the Ngok Dinka tribe conducted a unilateral popular referendum, in which the vast majority of people voted to join South Sudan. However, neither Sudan nor South Sudan recognized the plebiscite so far.