{"id":6204,"date":"2022-05-28T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=6204"},"modified":"2022-05-28T06:51:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T06:51:04","slug":"we-are-upset-with-un-security-council-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/28\/we-are-upset-with-un-security-council-minister-says\/","title":{"rendered":"We are upset with UN Security Council, Minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The minister of Information, Communication Technology and Postal Service, Michael Makuei Lueth and government spokesperson (photo by Philip Buda)<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By William Madouk Garang<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Minister of Information and Government\u2019s Spokesperson, Michael Makuei Lueth said government is very disappointed and dissatisfied with recent renewal of sanctions and an arms embargo imposed by UN Security Council (UNSC) on the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minister Lueth was speaking to media on Friday after the Council of Ministers meeting that was chaired by President Salva Kiir Mayardit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UNSC voted by a narrow margin on Thursday extending an arms embargo, travel ban and financial sanctions for targeted individuals in South Sudan for yet another one year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The vote on South Sudan\u2019s sanctions was 10-0; China, Russia, India, Kenya and Gabon abstained from the voting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mr. Makuei Lueth said that the Council of Ministers endorsed the statement issued by ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation voicing government\u2019s displeasure and strong objection towards the UNSC resolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe government of South Sudan is dissatisfied and disappointed with resolution of the UNSC because this resolution, in the opinion of the government doesn\u2019t serve the interest of the people of South Sudan and doesn\u2019t in any way serve the proper implementation of the agreement,\u201d Makuei Lueth told journalists on Friday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe really appreciate the position of China, Russia and India Gabon and Kenya for their steadfast and for standing with the government of South Sudan against unfair resolution,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He further called on African member states to heed African Union\u2019s resolution which says African problems should be solved by Africans without any external interference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe call upon the members of UN Security Council not to listen to individual reports that are presented without being substantiated, and by so doing they take such decision at the time when they are not properly substantiated,\u201d Lueth stressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Sudan has repetitively called for the arms embargo and other sanctions to be lifted. However earlier this month, the UN panel monitoring sanctions recommended that UNSC extended the arms embargo due to \u2018persistent violation of ceasefire\u2019 in the country.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The expert expressed concern over the government\u2019s purchase of some \u2018new armored\u2019 personnel carriers for the police in March as a violation of arms embargo, however, the government vehemently denied violation adding that they didn\u2019t obtain any army vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The adopted resolution recognized improvement in respect of ceasefire but echoes \u2018alarm and deep concern regarding the political, security, economic and humanitarian crisis across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It extends the arms embargo and sanctions until May 31, 2023, and the mandate for the panel experts till July 1, 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By William Madouk Garang The Minister of Information and Government\u2019s Spokesperson, Michael Makuei Lueth said government is very disappointed and dissatisfied with recent renewal of sanctions and an arms embargo imposed by UN Security Council (UNSC) on the country. Minister Lueth was speaking to media on Friday after the Council[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6206,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204\/revisions\/6206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}