Sanctions imposed on senior officials undermine efforts to bring peace to South Sudan- official
Kuol Manyang Juuk, Miniter of Defense and Veteran Affairs (Photo: Supplied)
December 20th, 2019 (SSNN)-The South Sudan government has regretted the recent measures in which the US government imposed individual sanctions on its two senior officials.
On Monday, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed individual sanctions on two South Sudanese officials for their role in obstructing the implementation of the peace deal and reconciliation efforts in South Sudan.
Speaking to reporters earlier this week, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Deng Dau Deng, said that the recent sanctions imposed by the US Treasury on Kuol Manyang Juuk, Minister of Defense and Martin Elia Lomuro, Minister of Cabinet Affairs, are not beneficial but instead, obstructing the ongoing efforts to bring peace to South Sudan.
“The sanctions are not helpful particularly at this time, because the government of South Sudan from 2017 signed the cessation of hostilities. We continue to implement all the provisions of the peace agreement and there is no instability from December 2017 to date and this shows that the defense minister has done absolutely what says in the agreement,” Deng was quoted as saying.
Deng said that imposing individual sanctions on an incumbent minister has never been a good move at all, but instead adds more fuel to the fire.
“Sanctioning the minister of defence and that of cabinet affairs in our view is not helping in the implementation of the agreement, but it’s actually creating more suffering for the people of South Sudan because sanctions have never been helpful in any other place,” he added.
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