As
South Sudan Says No to 4000
Peacekeepers, ICP Asks UK Which
Says Juba Must Accept
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
January 11 – After South Sudan
said that it will not, in
fact, accept the 4,000 new
peacekeepers for the Regional
Protection Force, Inner City
Press on January 11 asked UK
Ambassador Matthew Rycroft
about it. Video
here; UN transcript
here:
Inner City Press:
On South Sudan, the government
say they’re not going to take
the regional protection force.
What do you think the Council
can or should do?
Amb Rycroft: They
committed earlier to accept
the regional protection force.
They are obliged to accept it,
given Security Council
decisions, and we call on them
again to accept that regional
protection force in the
interest of longer term
stability in South Sudan.
When the
UN Security
Council members
met about South
Sudan on December
15, the best they
could do was
extend the mandate
of the UNMISS
mission for a
single day. Even
then, there was
already news of
UNMISS having
given arms to
warlord, or “rebel
general,” James
Koang.
Inner City
Press asked US
Ambassador
Samantha Power
about this on
December 16 and
she said she
hadn't read it. On
December 19, even
while fielding a
pre-picked
question on South
Sudan, Power still
refused to answer.
Video
here.
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