The US secretary of state John Kerry has urged the south sudan leaders to get the job done by fully implementing a peace deal or face a UN arms embargo and sanctions. Sudan has discussed the escalating violence in south sudan and the development of a UN protection force.
The violence prompted the United Nations to authorise the deployment of 4,000 extra UN troops to bolster a UN mission there, warning South Sudan it would face an arms embargo if it did not cooperate.
South Sudan’s government initially said it would not cooperate with the new UN troops which will be under the command of the 12,000-strong UNMISS mission. But since then it has said it was still considering its position.
Kerry said if the nation’s leaders implemented a peace agreement and was doing whatever necessary to stabilize the country and if they choose not to do that, then we, who have been the largest donor in the world to the government of South Sudan and have to rethink what they are doing.
