The UN Security Council plans to review whether Sudan and South Sudan were complying with an August 2 deadline to try to settle their disputes, the British envoy to the United Nations said Tuesday according to dpa. "We will be looking at implementation of Resolution 2046 at the time of the deadline on August 2," ambassador Mark Lyall Grant told reporters at UN headquarters in New York. Resolution 2046 calls for a comprehensive settlement of the conflict after South Sudan became an independent state in July 2011. Fighting that erupted earlier this year between the two sides was triggered mainly by a dispute over oil resources in the Abyei region. Apart from the status of Abyei, the two sides have so far been unable to reach an agreement on oil transit fees, the status of citizens and border demarcation.
