The UN Security Council on Friday strongly condemned the attack on a United Nations logistics base in Sudan's troubled South Kordofan State.

"The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the attack on the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) and the Joint Border Verification and Monitoring Mechanism (JBVMM) interim headquarters in Kadugli, Sudan, on June 14," said a press statement issued here by the 15-nation body.

According to the statement, the attack resulted in the death of an Ethiopian peacekeeper and left two others wounded.

In the statement, the Council members expressed their condolences to the family of the peacekeeper killed in the attack, to the government of Ethiopia, and to UNISFA.

"They called on the government of Sudan swiftly to investigate the incident and bring the perpetrators to justice," said the statement.

The members of the Security Council also reiterated their full support for UNISFA and called on all parties to exercise maximum restraint and to cooperate fully with the mission and the JBVMM for the successful implementation of their mandates.

UNISFA was established in June 2011 to secure the area after Sudanese troops took control of Abyei, displacing tens of thousands of people in the weeks before South Sudan became an independent State after seceding from Sudan.

In an agreement of July 30, 2011 between Khartoum and Juba, JBVMM was delineated for governing the safe demilitarized border zone in Abyei.

The South Kordofan and Blue Nile states have been witnessing armed clashes between the Sudanese army and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM)/northern sector since 2011 after South Sudan's independence. Endi

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