Renewed fighting in South Sudan past week left at least 300 dead and more than 42,000 displaced.
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State House said that Ban Ki-moon said the violation of the ceasefire by Kiir and Machar makes the United Nations position very hard and asked Museveni as the guarantor of the peace process alongside the AU and IGAD to send out a clear unified message to South Sudan.
South Sudan was represented by Foreign Minister Deng Alor and Presidential Advisor Niyal Deng.
The Organization called for calm and stability, warning that if peace does not hold, the human costs of recent fighting in Juba will be compounded by deepening hunger across the entire country. Second, enact additional targeted sanctions on leaders and commanders working to unravel the peace process.
“First, impose an immediate arms embargo on South Sudan”.
President Kenyatta and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon have called on South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and his Vice President Riek Machar to abide by the peace agreement signed past year…
“Deal with them carefully and work towards peace and elections”.
“The people of the world’s youngest nation can not afford any further instability”, he said, adding: “We have to remember that peace and food security are two sides of the same coin – it’s the currency that drives development and prosperity”.
The Secretary-General and the President discussed the follow-up to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, which Uganda is planning to ratify soon.
Trudeau said the US ambassador and emergency personnel remained in South Sudan, “engaging diplomatically with leaders. and supporting USA citizens in the country”.
Ban and Kagame agreed on the need and urgency of renewed worldwide engagement to advance the quest for peace in South Sudan.
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Maalim said that the chiefs of the militaries of Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan and Uganda have made a proposal to reinforce UNMISS with troops from the region “under the same unity of mandate to assist in the stabilization of South Sudan”, according to a press release rom the Kenyan presidency.
