Africa-Press – South-Sudan. South Sudan government on Thursday slammed Ghana for voting in favor of a US-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution renewing arms embargo and targeted sanctions on the world’s youngest country.
The UN Security Council in 2018 imposed arms embargo South Sudan as well as targeted sanctions against individuals believed to be fueling the violence in the country and those impeding the realization of peace.
The UN Security Council has since been renewing the arms embargo and sanctions as a panel of experts tasked with monitoring the situation in South Sudan has been suggesting continuation of the international measures against South Sudan.
On Thursday, the Security Council voted narrowly to renew the sanctions citing lack of will from the parties to implement the agreement and escalating violence across many parts of the country.
Ghana, one of the two African countries available at the voting, supported the resolution with Kenya, the other African country, abstaining along Russia, China and India.
The vote by Ghana angered the government in Juba which said that it is disappointed by the position taken by the “West African country.
That some countries would dismiss the African Union’s stance on this matter shows an old hubris with no value for a world shaken by wars, including in Africa and Europe. When the African Union rejected the US-sponsored sanctions and arms embargo on South Sudan, Ghana was its chair,” the ministry of foreign affairs in Juba said.
“That our brotherly country, whom we look to as an anchor of Pan-Africanism, should vote against the African Union position disappoints us. We, nonetheless, have confidence that the Ghanaian Government will revisit its position,” the statement added.
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