Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir is threatening to shut down oil pipelines in his country if the south refuses to pay transit fees or stops sharing oil revenues after it secedes next month.

Mr. Bashir told supporters in Port Sudan Tuesday that either the north and south continue to share oil or the north gets fees for every barrel of oil that the south sends through pipelines to the north. He said if the south does not accept either of those options, the north with shut down the pipelines.

South Sudan will become a separate county on July 9, but the north and south have not yet reached a final deal on how to manage oil revenues after the spilt.

The majority of Sudan's oil output comes from the south, but all of the key oil infrastructure, including refineries, pipelines and ports are in the north.

North and south Sudan fought a decades-long civil war that ended in 2005 with an agreement providing for the south to hold a referendum on self-determination. Southern voters voted overwhelmingly in January to secede.

In recent weeks, there has been fighting in the border regions of Abyei and Southern Kordofan between government troops and forces aligned to the south. The violence has forced more than 360,00 people to flee their homes and raised fears of a return to civil war.