South Sudan vows readiness to redesigning ties with U.S.
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August 23, 2017 (JUBA) - South Sudanese government pledged on
Wednesday its readiness to redesign its bilateral relations with the
people and the government of United States.
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South Sudan minister Deng Alor Koul (Photo: Moses Lomoyat)
Foreign affairs minister Deng Alor Kuol told Sudan Tribune on
Wednesday that the people of South Sudan and the Americans enjoy a
“very strong friendship" with embassies mutually established.
“A good friend would come out and tell you from the bottom of his
heart whatever he sees that you need to fix. This does not mean the
friend does not like you. At the moment the two nations maintain a
cordial relationship. Relations between the two countries are
traceable as far back as before the war of liberation struggle”,
explained Foreign Minister Kuol to Sudan Tribune on Wednesday.
The minister said the two nations would eventually overcome the
current situation and move on to redesigning how best they could work
together to revert the past in order to consolidate efforts.
“Yes, the leaderships and people in the two countries are aware of
challenges they dealing with at the moment but this should not be
interpreted to mean the two countries will never get back to the
situation they were in the past. The situation will change and it will
be the opportunity to redesign how they would restructure bilateral
relations in various areas for mutual benefits of the citizens of the
two countries,” he explained.
His comments after American senators wrote a letter addressed to U.S.
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, pointing out the United States has a
strong and unique bond with the people of South Sudan through
America’s key role in the formation of South Sudan as an independent
state.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker and Senator
Chris Coons said the international diplomatic response to the ongoing
war in the young nation has failed and donors have focused on
providing urgent humanitarian relief which reached almost $3 billion
since December 2013
“Despite initial optimism about the future of the world’s newest
country, the people of South Sudan have spent the past three years
entangled in a brutal conflict, which has spiralled out of control,
with more than two million people internally displaced and almost two
million forced from the country,” U.S. legislators wrote.
The United States, according to the senators, must simultaneously
address the structural problems that enable kleptocracy, incentivize
violence, and prevent peace.
They demanded a more transparent and responsible government in the
future, adding that this includes regional responsibility for impunity
and the negative physical and human impact it has on stability and
development in the region.
The lawmakers called upon the Treasury to also focus on deploying
financial tools that target the financial networks of those
obstructing peace and dispersing the proceedings of corruption through
the region, and even through America’s financial system.
“We ask the Treasury Department to act to hold South Sudanese leaders
accountable. We urge you to investigate corruption, impose
network-focused sanctions, identify hidden assets and collaborate with
international anti-money laundering standard setting bodies,” they
added in the letter.
Corker and Coons pointed out that holding South Sudanese leaders in
key decision making positions accountable will send a signal to the
government in Juba and the region that bad governance by political and
military elites will no longer be given space in the international
capital markets for impunity.
“Those fighting in South Sudan will not agree to a sustainable peace
until the international community develops more robust leverage and
deploys stronger pressure. “We believe the United States can increase
the pressure and change the calculations of those profiting from
conflict,” they wrote
The American politicians revealed in an August 1, 2017, letter that
their intent is to stop the free flow of resources to the political
and military leaders, their families and associates through Uganda and
Kenya, engagement with international financial institutions and
network-focused sanctions.
U.S. Ambassador to South Sudan Molly Phee also on Monday expressed
publicly the disappointment of her country with the performance of the
government in Juba, saying the relationship between the countries were
now not strong as it was before.
The U.S. diplomat attributed the deteriorating in ties continuing war,
corruption and the mistreatment of aid workers in the world’s youngest
nation.
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24 August 04:10, by Garangs Ghost
South Sudan is an international embarrassment for the united
states. For 25 years it supported it against the North, believed in
the "new sudan" nonsense and what did it get in the end?
killing,rape,looting, famine,tribalism,corruption and backwardness.
America clearly didn’t understand how primitive the South is. South
Sudan needs to be placed under UN administration indefinitely.
repondre message
24 August 06:47, by Nairobimitot
Garang’s Ghosts
I disagree with you. South Sudan doesn’t need to be
administered by the UN.I will tell you. What UN can do. It needs to
improve the corruption in South Sudan. South Sudan lack understanding
about the danger of corruption practices by the government. In that
being said, the UN is welcome in South Sudan to provide help in
improving the efficiency of the government.
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