UN peacekeeping chief visits Bor, pledges support to South Sudan
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By John Actually
July 7, 2013 (BOR) -The United Nations head of Department of
Peacekeeping Operation (DPKO) Hervé Ladsous on Sunday visited Bor and
pledged UN support in helping South Sudan develop into a modern state.
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UN peacekeeping chief, Hervé Ladsous speaks to reporters after a
meeting with Jonglei state governor Kuol Manyang Juuk (left behind)
who discusses with his aides in Bor on 7 July 2013 (ST)
"We are very supportive to make the country a modern state with
functioning institutions with full respect for human rights. This is
the fundamental objective of the United Nations”, said Ladsous who was
accompanied by other top officials of the peace keeping operation.
Ladsous said the UN’s mandate in South Sudan would soon be renewed and
that the peace keeping mission will continue to monitor peace in areas
where they have been deployed in the country.
The UN’s head of peace keeping however said that with austerity
measures in many countries around the world, the UN is facing
financial challenges which he said makes it difficult for the global
body to address all the challenges in South Sudan.
“It is clear that the United Nation doesn’t have the means to take
over all these issues immediately in this time of financial austerity
in the whole world”, said Ladsous.
In his briefing to the UN team, the state governor, Kuol Manyang Juuk,
attributed the violence in his state to poverty.
“I briefed him [Hervé Ladsous] that this insecurity is a poverty
generated action. These are people who are fighting over the cattle,
and it has been going on for a very long time, maybe for hundreds
years…because the people have acquired automatic rifles, this why the
rate of death is very high,” governor Manyang told the media after his
meeting to Ladsous.
The governor said the state is making an effort in educating the
people to refrain from cattle raiding, child abduction and killing of
innocent persons. To address the challenges, Manyang said the state
has prioritised agriculture and is engaged in infrastructure
development as one way of addressing poverty. According to the
governor, a Korean engineering company has already started road
maintenance that will connect the counties of Pochalla to Pibor and
Akobo, among others, to Bor.
(ST)
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