The South Sudan government says it rejects a draft resolution being circulated at the U.N. Security Council, calling for deployment of a regional protection force to Juba and other parts of the country wracked by violence.
The Juba government's information minister, Michael Makuei, said such a force would be unacceptable if it is supervised by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), and that it would undermine South Sudan's sovereignty.
The United States has sponsored the draft resolution now being discussed at the Security Council in New York. Heads of state of the regional trade bloc IGAD, or Intergovernmental Authority on Development, have been meeting in Addis Ababa to discuss the proposed regional protection force.
In New York last week, the U.N. Security Council extended the mandate of the UNMISS force, which had been about to expire, until this Friday. IGAD heads of state and their partners are discussing modifying that mandate.
Among the topics under discussion is whether UNMISS should be empowered to prevent the direct or indirect supply or sale of arms and aircraft to either the government or the opposition forces fighting under the name of the SPLA (the Sudan People's Liberation Army), the former military wing of the political party of the same name...
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10/8/16
The Juba government's information minister, Michael Makuei, said such a force would be unacceptable if it is supervised by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), and that it would undermine South Sudan's sovereignty.
The United States has sponsored the draft resolution now being discussed at the Security Council in New York. Heads of state of the regional trade bloc IGAD, or Intergovernmental Authority on Development, have been meeting in Addis Ababa to discuss the proposed regional protection force.
In New York last week, the U.N. Security Council extended the mandate of the UNMISS force, which had been about to expire, until this Friday. IGAD heads of state and their partners are discussing modifying that mandate.
Among the topics under discussion is whether UNMISS should be empowered to prevent the direct or indirect supply or sale of arms and aircraft to either the government or the opposition forces fighting under the name of the SPLA (the Sudan People's Liberation Army), the former military wing of the political party of the same name...
[voanews.com]
10/8/16
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South Sudan on Wednesday accused the UN and U.S. of plotting to put the government under UN trusteeship by revising the mandate of the protection force agreed upon recently by regional countries...
ReplyDeleteGovernment spokesman Michael Makuei alleged existence of a scheme by Washington to put the war-torn, oil-rich impoverished country under UN trusteeship, citing the Aug. 7 draft on renewal of the mandate of the UN Peacekeeping Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).
"Unfortunately the U.S. draft decided to put this protection force under UNMISS again, even though we had agreed that as government we would agree on contributing countries, armaments, mandate and funding," Makuei told journalists in Juba.
His remarks came after Washington last week proposed extension of the UNMISS mandate until Dec. 15, deployment of more 4,000 strong troops to beef up the 12,000 UNMISS force on ground and arms embargo targeting both parties to the conflict.
Initially the Aug. 5, a communique from the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) despite calling for deployment of the regional protection force under command of UNMISS force commander, also notes that the composition, mandate, armament, deployment and funding shall be done in consultation with the transitional unity government (TGoNU)...........http://www.china.org.cn/world/2016-08/10/content_39066871.htm