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  1. “The Security Council should support the efforts of South Sudanese from the categories outlined earlier in any initiative to address the crisis in the country. The support of the United Nations may take many forms. The Security Council may work jointly with IGAD, the African Union and other actors in the international community to raise extremely high the cost of wilful sabotage of peace implementation, including the perpetuation of violence, human rights abuses and restrictions on civic and political space.”

    2021-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8801 (2021) · source

  2. “First, South Sudanese who genuinely represent the suffering masses need to be at the core of the solutions moving forward and not just those who wield power by the barrel of a gun. On this note, the full spectrum of civil society — civil society organizations, faith-based leaders, women, youth, professional groups and the business community — must demand of the leaders in the unity Government that they effectively discharge their mandates, as stipulated in the Constitution and the peace agreement or accept a reconfiguration of the political order into one that is capable of meaningfully resolving the problems in the country. Secondly, the South Sudanese in their diversity should demand and ensure that South Sudan is governed on the basis of the principles that informed the struggle for the liberation and independence of our country.”

    2021-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8801 (2021) · source

  3. “This will further complicate the situation for civilians in the country and stifle efforts to address the crisis and restore peace, security and stability. It is also highly likely that the civil population, civil servants and political groups will become increasingly frustrated. These public frustrations risk causing instability of their own through demand for improvement, especially in the security, economic and humanitarian situations in the country. IGAD member States are likely to remain occupied in their internal national issues. This will only leave the parties on their own, without robust regional oversight and support. Turning to the way forward and learning from the past 10 years, South Sudan needs to chart a new and clear path for the next 10 years.”

    2021-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8801 (2021) · source

  4. “With regard to the peace agreement, the effectiveness of IGAD appears to be diminishing. First, almost all States members of IGAD have been more involved in their internal issues rather than in regional efforts over the past 12 months. Secondly, the South Sudanese parties to the peace agreement have become fairly immune to pressure from IGAD. For example, IGAD called on them to dissolve Parliament within two weeks, but it took over 10 months for that to happen. The current situation of ineffective leadership and deliberate neglect of the purpose of our independence have kept our country in crisis for the past 10 years. Without a change in this status, the future can only be expected to remain the same or even worsen. The volatile political, economic, security and humanitarian situations are likely to remain mutually exacerbating.”

    2021-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8801 (2021) · source

  5. “In a nationwide public consultation held with women in all 10 states of the country in March this year, they strongly expressed concerns about the slow implementation of the peace agreement and the poor delivery of basic services, such as health, education and water. They felt that the implementation of the peace agreement’s affirmative-action quota of 35 per cent would help increase the voices of women in public decision-making geared towards the resolution of the crisis in the country. However, most of the parties to the peace agreement have not been meeting their share of the 35 per cent representation in the institutions of the unity Government. The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) is the mediator and main guarantor of the peace agreement.”

    2021-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8801 (2021) · source

  6. “Due to an acute shortage of food and medicines, the forces have been deserting their cantonment sites and training centres. The report of the Ceasefire and Transitional Security Arrangements Monitoring and Verification Mechanism, presented at the seventeenth plenary session of the Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission, held in Juba on 20 May, indicated that there were only about 75 soldiers left in a cantonment site that held had about 1,500 soldiers. Needless to say, the functioning of all the security mechanisms created by the peace agreement is severely impaired due to lack of funds. While implementation of the transitional security arrangements delays and faulters, civilians continue to pay the price of insecurity in the country. It may be noted that women have been among the main victims of this situation.”

    2021-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8801 (2021) · source

  7. “The consistent and full implementation of the agreement would enable the South Sudanese to restore peace, security and stability, address the humanitarian crisis, reform and strengthen the effectiveness of public institutions, deliver transitional justice, write a permanent constitution and conduct credible elections within the agreed implementation schedule. As it stands now, however, 33 of the 44 months of the original timeline of peace implementation have elapsed without achieving key milestones of the peace agreement. The transitional security arrangements, which were supposed to have been accomplished in the first eight months of the peace agreement, are collapsing. Not a single soldier of the initially agreed 83,000 necessary unified forces has graduated.”

    2021-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8801 (2021) · source

  8. “However, barely 30 months into our independence, our country descended into multiple civil wars and made it even more difficult to realize these principles. The net effects of the leadership failure and neglect of the principles that guided our struggle for liberation and independence are severe. The main effect is State failure. The South Sudanese State is unable to perform its basic functions of government, such as maintaining security for itself and for all citizens, enforcing law and order, delivering services to the population and meaningfully resolving the multiple conflicts in the country. From our perspective as civil society, the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan provides a reasonable framework for peace in our country.”

    2021-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8801 (2021) · source

  9. “It defines a unifying national vision to set a direction for a country, and provides the means and creates the environment necessary for the realization of the vision. That has been grossly lacking in South Sudan since the country became independent and, as it stands now, there is no clarity as to where the country is heading. South Sudan is a product of decades of liberation struggles with clearly defined purpose and principles. The text of the declaration of our independence recalls that our people led a “long and heroic struggle for justice, freedom, equality, human dignity and political and economic emancipation”. The declaration further states that we, the people of South Sudan, “resolved to establish a system of governance that upholds the rule of law, justice, democracy, human rights and respect for diversity”.”

    2021-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8801 (2021) · source

  10. “In summary, South Sudan at independence had resources, institutions, professionals and legal frameworks to govern itself, deliver basic services and set the country on the path to development. Unfortunately, all that potential was quickly squandered, leading to increased State fragility and failure. I will mention and explain only two main reasons that I believe hampered progress in South Sudan. The first was ineffective political leadership and the second was a neglect of principles that guided the struggle for our liberation and independence. Those two sources of our predicament as a country caused a meltdown in all sectors, including politics and governance, security and the economy. Leadership is almost everything a country needs in order to make progress.”

    2021-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8801 (2021) · source

  11. “South Sudanese who were internally displaced and those in refuge in neighbouring countries returned to the country, settled and started rebuilding their lives. Many built houses, produced their own food and engaged in business. Local Governments were operational throughout the country. In most parts of the country, the movement of people, goods and services was safe, day and night. The country had the resources and international good will to support development in all sectors. The country had the legal frameworks necessary to govern itself. The laws attempted to address historical gender injustices and imbalances by providing for 25 per cent affirmative action for women at independence, which has now been raised to 35 per cent.”

    2021-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8801 (2021) · source

  12. “Mr. Mohandis: It is my distinct honour to brief the Security Council on the eve of the tenth anniversary of the independence of my country, the Republic of South Sudan. I brief the Security Council with great humility on behalf of my colleagues in civil society and millions of South Sudanese citizens. This briefing is looking at what has worked well, why things did not work so well and what it means; the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan; what we may expect moving forward and finally the way forward. The declaration of the independence of South Sudan was a great historic moment that gave hope to South Sudanese on 9 July 2011. It brought a sense of satisfaction, indicating the achievement of a lifetime dream for which millions of our people across generations had paid the ultimate price.”

    2021-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8801 (2021) · source