South Sudan says UN draft proposal not consistent with IGAD communique
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August 8, 2016 (JUBA) - South Sudanese government on Monday said they
were disappointed by a new development in New York in which a United
Nations (UN) draft proposed deployment of protection force but with
responsibility of intervention force to take charge for the security
of Juba, including the Juba International Airport.
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The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon handshake with the
President of the Republic of South Sudan, Salva Kiir at Presidential
Palace, J1 in Juba capital on February 25, 2016 (UNMISS photo)
The draft proposal circulated to members of the United Nations
Security Council by the United States on Sunday said the UN would also
determine the armament of the force.
But South Sudanese officials said the draft is different from the
understanding reached in the summit of the heads of state and
government of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
which released a communique on Friday in Addis Ababa on deployment of
a Protection Force.
“The draft proposal we are hearing is inconsistent with the IGAD
communiqué,” South Sudanese cabinet affairs minister, Martin Elia
Lomuro, an ally of President Kiir, told Sudan Tribune on Monday.
The regional communique, according to minister Lomuro, allows the
government to participate in discussions related to mandate,
armaments, funding and the size of the force to be deployed.
However, the surfaced proposed deployment on Sunday indicated that the
United Nations Security Council should authorize a 4,000-strong force
to ensure peace in Juba.
It urged the council to approve a regional protection force to be
deployed in Juba with the mandate “to use all necessary means,
including undertaking robust and active steps and engaging in direct
operations where necessary," to secure Juba and protect the airport
and other key facilities.
The draft proposal also threatened to impose an arms embargo should
the South Sudanese government fail to cooperate.
The protection force, if approved by the Security Council, would be
part of the United Nations mission in South Sudan which has been on
the ground since the country gained independence from Sudan in 2011.
The protection force commander, whose role will be defined by the
revised new mandate, would be subordinate to the overall force
commander of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).
The council will vote on whether to impose an arms embargo if UN
Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, reports within a month of adoption of
the draft resolution that South Sudan’s transitional government is
obstructing deployment of the protection force.
Heavy fighting involving tanks and helicopter gunships erupted in Juba
for several days last month between troops loyal to President Salva
Kiir and those backing former First Vice President, Riek Machar,
raising fears of a return to full-scale civil war in the world’s
newest nation.
Hundreds of people were killed and the United Nations said government
soldiers and security forces executed civilians and gang-raped women
and girls during and after the outbreak of fighting. South Sudan
government denied the accusations.
The East African regional bloc, IGAD, said on Friday that South Sudan
had agreed to the deployment of a regional force, which has been a key
demand of Machar, who left Juba in the wake of the violence. Kiir has
since appointed a new first vice president, Taban Deng Gai, but IGAD
wants him to step down.
The draft resolution "urges member states in the region to expedite
contributions of rapidly deployable troops to ensure the full
deployment of the Regional Protection Force as soon as possible."
The draft text would extend the mandate for UNMISS until 15 December.
The Security Council needs to adopt the draft by Friday, when the
current UNMISS mandate expires.
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9 August 01:23, by jur_likang_a_ likan’g
Lomuro please stay out of this. Loka is chaos, Lanya is in total
trouble. If you mind about Pojulu’s lives and your uncles Kakwa, you
would not be talking like a Gogrial man. Let UN rain sanity in South
Sudan so that people can once more live in harmony. As I write Madi,
Acholi, Latuko, shilluk, Balanda and Nuer are experiencing a hell form
your masters.
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9 August 06:54, by Eastern
....the kleptocrats are at it again. They want to appear relevant
to South Sudanese when their hands are dripping with the blood of
innocent people. Kiir has been told multiple times that protection and
intervention are intertwined. Kiir’s legitemacy has gone down with the
collapse of the ARCISS!
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