BuhariPresident urges warring leaders to honour peace agreement in South Sudan
Buhari has called on warring leaders in South Sudan to honour the terms of the Peace Agreement.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in New York called on warring leaders in South Sudan to honour the terms of the Peace Agreement they signed in August 2015.
A statement issued in Abuja by the president’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, said Buhari made the call at the meeting of the African Union Peace and Security Council on the Situation in South Sudan. The
meeting was held on the sidelines of the ongoing 71st Session of the
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA71), in New York on Monday. The
President described the unconditional implementation of the Agreement
as the “cornerstone of peace and reconciliation” in that country. He
noted that whatever reservations that might exist against the
agreement, “should under no circumstances be the pretext for failure to
implement the Agreement.”
According to the
President, it is regrettable that lack of unity and political progress
in South Sudan has remained a major obstacle to peace. He,
however, stressed that Africa and indeed the entire world had high
hopes and expectations for South Sudan as an independent nation.
Buhari
noted that recurrent conflict and political instability with grave
human rights and humanitarian consequences have overshadowed any
progress that might have been made towards South Sudan’s development. He
also stressed the need for stronger cooperation among the United
Nations, the African Union and Intergovernmental Authority for
Development and other stakeholders for the immediate deployment of the
Regional Protection Force in South Sudan, as mandated by Security
Council Resolution 2304. He expressed the hope
that such action would strengthen the peace process in the beleaguered
East-Central African nation and newest member-state of the United
Nations, The president condemned “in strong terms
crimes against civilians of all ethnic groups and political parties and
attacks on United Nations Mission personnel as well as local and
international aid workers in South Sudan’’.He maintained that perpetrators of such heinous crimes “must not be allowed to go unpunished.
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