The United States has warned Sudan against any possible support for rebels in neighboring Chad, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said on Monday.
"We've gone directly to very high levels of the Sudanese government to say that if there is any support from the Sudanese government to these rebels, that should end immediately," McCormack told reporters.
"And that any influence they might have with the rebels, they should use in order to tell them to withdraw," the spokesman said.
The United States has been at odds for years with Sudan over regional conflicts in the western Sudanese region of Darfur.
Reports from N'Djmena, the capital of the central African country, said that a heavy fighting erupted between some 2,000 rebels opposed to Chadian President Idriss Deby and government forces in the capital on Saturday.
The Chadian government has repeatedly accused the Sudanese government of supporting the Chadian rebel movements, but the accusation has been categorically refused by Khartoum.
"What is happening in Chad is a conflict between the government of (President) Idriss Deby and the opposition, and Sudan has nothing to do with it," Sudanese Presidential Adviser Abdullah Ali Masar told Xinhua Saturday.
Source:Xinhua
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