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Madut Agok

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2021-12-15
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2021-12-15
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  1. “We would like to express our appreciation to the Council members who will not be with us next year. I thank them for their valuable support while on the Council. We would also like to wish the Council and your delegation, Mr. President, happy holidays and a merry Christmas. The meeting rose at 3.15 p.m.”

    2021-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8932 (2021) · source

  2. “The resolution adopted today calls for the United Nations country teams in both the Sudan and South Sudan to help with the provision of services in Abyei. To date, despite the shared sovereignty of the box, South Sudan shoulders the responsibility for providing services to the people. We therefore appreciate the Council’s call for surge and reinforcement. In conclusion, the ultimate resolution and an exit strategy for UNISFA lie the call for the realization of the final status of Abyei. We call on the Security Council, the African Union Peace and Security Council, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development and friends of both the Sudan and South Sudan to work towards the goal of realizing the final status. The people of Abyei deserve it.”

    2021-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8932 (2021) · source

  3. “South Sudan and the Ngok Dinka accepted the decision, despite the massive reduction of the ancestral land of the Ngok Dinka by the Court. We welcome that today’s resolution calls for UNISFA to have a greater role in expanding intelligence-gathering within the box, to enable for better preparation and positioning of its forces in case of any planned attacks by criminal elements in the Area, as was the cases in Kolem, Mabok and Dunguop, to which the resolution refers. The arms-free nature of the Abyei box has been well articulated by different Council resolutions over the years. Nevertheless, the Sudan continues to keep the so-called oil police in Diffra, in total violation of the demands of the Council. We call on the Council to reiterate to the Sudan the importance of heeding that call.”

    2021-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8932 (2021) · source

  4. “At a time when the region and the international community are working hard to find lasting peace in Abyei, that move is a very dangerous trend that is sowing the seeds of violent conflict in the Area. It must be stopped with a sense of urgency. The final award of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague defines Abyei as the land of the nine chiefdoms of the Ngok Dinka. The territory is clearly demarcated on the map — in fact, the award was for about a third of the territory that the Abyei Boundary Commission demarcated to be that of the Ngok Dinka. That decision, which was to be final and binding, was rejected by the Sudan, which necessitated resort to The Hague. The decision by The Hague was accepted by the parties, with the Sudan claiming victory.”

    2021-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8932 (2021) · source

  5. “We welcome the renewed concern over the unresolved impasse between the parties on reaching an agreement on the final status of Abyei. South Sudan remains focused and committed to peaceful means in reaching a final resolution as agreed in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, with the people of Abyei deciding, in a free and fair referendum, where they want to be. Nevertheless, the lingering challenge is the fact that UNISFA is an interim arrangement pending a resolution of the final status of Abyei. An aspect of the impasse on Abyei is the fact that the Sudan is making effective use of the passage of time to impose a new reality on the ground through radical demographic transformation.”

    2021-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8932 (2021) · source

  6. “I thank you, Mr. President, for giving my delegation the opportunity to speak before the Security Council. My delegation welcomes the Council’s adoption of resolution 2609 (2021) and calls for the implementation of the provisions therein. Allow me to thank the penholder for its positive role during the negotiating phase, as well as those members who had an opportunity to reach out and seek our views. The Government of South Sudan appreciates the presence in the region of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) and the positive role it has played over the years, sometimes under difficult circumstances and with contingents serving away from their loved ones. We would like them to know that we appreciate their role.”

    2021-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8932 (2021) · source

  7. “We therefore call on the international community to assist the Government not only with the immediate needs of the affected population, but also with the long-term consequences through adaptation and mitigation measures. South Sudan is a strong participant in all climate change-related forums because our commitment is driven by the impact that we feel. In conclusion, we call on the Security Council and the international community at large to stop sitting on the fence and cherry-picking, while it remains actively seized of the matter. The financial burden of the revitalized agreement is too heavy to be left for the parties to fund alone. Let us put the money where our mouths are.”

    2021-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8931 (2021) · source

  8. “Therefore, it is in that same understanding and spirit that His Excellency President Kiir Mayardit sent his envoy to meet with the leadership of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement- Army in Opposition Kitgwang faction to call for calm and restraint from measures that would inflict further suffering on the South Sudanese. It should therefore be seen more as a preventive measure than a violation of the terms of the peace agreement. Climate change is a reality in South Sudan, with ever-longer periods of drought or heavy rainfall, which often result in flooding or a great deal of water coming from the islands, which causes a lot of floods. Those floods have caused a great deal of displacement and suffering to people in areas that have been affected. The ramifications of that will be greater than the Government can afford.”

    2021-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8931 (2021) · source

  9. “Over the years, His Excellency President Salva Kiir Mayardit has remained the main champion of peace, stability and reconciliation in South Sudan. He remains a pillar of peace and compromises, not only within his party, but he also often extends his good offices to other parties whenever they have an issue. That was demonstrated by his involvement in resolving differences both in the Other Political Parties, a political organization that is a coalition of other parties to the agreement, over the selection of members of Parliament to the reconstituted Transitional National Legislative Assembly and within another coalition when it could not agree on who should be the preferred candidate for the position of Vice-President.”

    2021-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8931 (2021) · source

  10. “The leadership of the reconstituted Transitional National Legislative Assembly is working on the formation of a leadership team in the Assembly, including the establishment of the leadership of the various committees and the subcommittees. Once those are finalized in due course, the Assembly will commence with the consideration of items in its order of business, as required by the revitalized agreement. The reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission, claiming that the implementation of the transitional security arrangements, especially the unification of forces and their deployment, was lacking in progress by, while the leadership of the armed forces is preparing to graduate the forces, needs more clarity. The processes are ongoing and will be completed once the arrangements are finalized.”

    2021-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8931 (2021) · source

  11. “These conflicts are caused by different reasons and factors, among which was the vacuum by lack of state Governments because of delays in the implementation matrix for the distribution of states among the parties to the agreement, as agreed in the revitalized peace agreement. However, since the formation of the state Governments, such conflict has started to decline, especially special in the states of Warrap and Lakes. Those positive changes were demonstrated by the statement of His Excellency President Salva Kiir Mayardit in his closing remarks at the just-concluded governors’ forum in Juba, when he congratulated His Excellency General Rin Tueny Mabor, the Governor of Lakes state, on the efforts that he had made for the pacification of the state, which allowed for the free movement of people and goods without fear.”

    2021-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8931 (2021) · source

  12. “Since the signing of the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan, in 2018, the country has continued to experience relative peace and security in the greater part of the country. It is common knowledge by now that the implementation process of the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan is slow, but steady, with all the parties committed to its full implementation in both letter and spirit, notwithstanding factors that hinder its smooth implementation. We are aware of the widespread intra- and intercommunal conflict that continues to adversely affect communities in the country.”

    2021-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8931 (2021) · source

  13. “At the outset, my delegation would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, and your delegation on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of December. My delegation assures you of its support. Allow me to welcome Mr. Nicholas Haysom, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for South Sudan and Head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, to this briefing, as well as Ms. Wafaa Saeed and the representative of Viet Nam on his visit to South Sudan. My delegation takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the situation in South Sudan, as issued in document S/2021/1015, of 7 December.”

    2021-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8931 (2021) · source