Both sides blamed the other for initiating last week's attacks which quickly escalated.
The Joint Task Force aims to eliminate militant operations while continuing a search and rescue operation to recover the remaining foreign and Nigerian hostages captured in the Gbaramatu Kingdom last week.
The Joint Task Force poured scorn on militant talk of an "all-out war" and threats by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend) to shut down the waterways and prevent oil exports from Delta State, which hosts Chevron's Escravos and Shell's Forcados export terminals.
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