{"id":34545,"date":"2023-04-02T13:39:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T13:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/makuei-i-dont-blame-west-for-sanctions"},"modified":"2023-04-02T14:08:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T14:08:58","slug":"makuei-i-dont-blame-west-for-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/makuei-i-dont-blame-west-for-sanctions","title":{"rendered":"Makuei: I don\u2019t blame West for sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>The national Minister of Information on Saturday condemned relief organizations, UN agencies and anti-government elements for allegedly feeding the international community with negative reports about South Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Makuei Lueth made the remarks at a press conference to give update on the implementation of the 2018 peace deal, delivery of humanitarian Aid, human rights situation, and the communal violence in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The news conference also responded to the recent renewal of national emergency on South Sudan by the Biden Administration.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday notified Congress of his intention to extend the national emergency on the world\u2019s youngest nation, saying the situation continues to pose a national security threat to Washington.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reports that go to America or to the world at large are reports written by people who are living here in South Sudan. They are reports which are written by NGOs, UN agencies, and by all those who are concerned about South Sudan,\u201d Makuei said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe paradox is that the reports that go from here, are always negative and anti-government of South Sudan and this is the most important part in which I am concerned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The government spokesperson said he does not blame President Biden or the International Community for their actions against his country, but some anti-government elements living in South Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I can say is that president Biden and all the others are not to blame for whatever action that they take, but it is the people here, those who write the reports here are the ones responsible and misleading the international community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Dau on doubting Thomases<\/b><\/p>\n<p>On his part, the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Deng Dau Deng said the government of South Sudan will not be distracted in its quest for durable peace.<\/p>\n<p>Dau said the unity government is redoubling efforts to implement R-ARCSS despite what he terms as unhelpful actions by international friends \u201cplaying the role of doubting Thomas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs parties to the Revitalized Agreement on resolution of conflict in the Republic of South Sudan continue to redouble efforts to implement the agreement to its logical conclusion,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut some of our friends have continued to play the role of doubting Thomases by occasionally darkening our spirit through unhelpful actions such as renewal of sanctions and arms embargo,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnjust rights condemnation of the Human Rights Council and just recently through the renewal of what the United States government calls Notice on the continuation of national emergency with respect to South Sudan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\">South-Sudan<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. The national Minister of Information on Saturday condemned relief organizations, UN agencies and anti-government elements for allegedly feeding the international community with negative reports about South Sudan. Michael Makuei Lueth made the remarks at a press conference to give update on the implementation of the 2018 peace deal, delivery of humanitarian Aid, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":34544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[234,265,233],"class_list":["post-34545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-sudan","tag-south-sudan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Makuei: I don\u2019t blame West for sanctions - South Sudan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The national Minister of Information on Saturday condemned relief organizations, UN agencies and anti-government element ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/makuei-i-dont-blame-west-for-sanctions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Makuei: I don\u2019t blame West for sanctions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The national Minister of Information on Saturday condemned relief organizations, UN agencies and anti-government element ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/makuei-i-dont-blame-west-for-sanctions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Sudan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-04-02T13:39:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-04-02T14:08:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1680426598.24.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"850\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"523\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/makuei-i-dont-blame-west-for-sanctions#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/makuei-i-dont-blame-west-for-sanctions\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Makuei: I don\u2019t blame West for sanctions\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-04-02T13:39:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-04-02T14:08:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/makuei-i-dont-blame-west-for-sanctions\"},\"wordCount\":437,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/makuei-i-dont-blame-west-for-sanctions#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1680426598.24.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-South-Sudan\",\"South-Sudan\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/makuei-i-dont-blame-west-for-sanctions#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/makuei-i-dont-blame-west-for-sanctions\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/makuei-i-dont-blame-west-for-sanctions\",\"name\":\"Makuei: I don\u2019t blame West for sanctions - 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