Morning Star.png Angola and Russia Halt South Sudan Sanctions The Morning Star, London, 17 September 2015 Russia and Angola blocked a US proposal for sanctions against two South Sudanese military leaders at the UN security council on Tuesday. The plan, which was leaked by unnamed diplomats on Monday, was to add General Paul Malong and general turned rebel leader Johnson Olony to a list of South Sudanese leaders subject to a travel ban and asset-freeze. The measures would have come into force without a vote if no objections had been raised by 7pm GMT on Tuesday. Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said that the foreign ministers of Sudan and South Sudan, who recently held talks in Moscow with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, signed a joint communiqué that included opposition to sanctions in the conflicted latter country. “We think we need to take that into account,” Mr Churkin told reporters. “The United States — very often they just say: ‘Sanctions, sanctions, sanctions,’ and in some cases it severely aggravates the situation.” From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-cdff-UN-Angola-and-Russia-halt-South-Su dan-sanctions#.Vfo9ZhGqqko -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
