The UN Security Council has called for an immediate and unconditional end to fighting on Sudan's southern border.
It expressed its "deep and growing alarm" over the "escalating conflict", and said the situation threatened to return the countries to full-scale war.
Since Tuesday, South Sudanese forces have occupied the Heglig oilfield, on its disputed border with Sudan.
It said the Sudanese air force must stop bombing, while South Sudan withdraw from the Heglig oilfields.
The council also called on all forces to pull back 10 kilometres (six miles) from their shared border, and for the countries to hold an immediate presidential summit, as had been planned previously.
Sudan's ambassador at the UN, Daffa-Alla Elhag Ali Osman, welcomed the statement.
He said if Southern troops don't comply than Khartoum will "chase them out" and "hit deep inside South Sudan".
He dismissed the Council's demand that Sudan also end aerial bombardments, saying reports of such attacks were fiction.
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