South Sudan seeks better working relations with U.S.
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January 21, 2017 (JUBA) - South Sudan President, Salva Kiir is
optimistic of better a working relation with the new U.S.
administration led by Donald Trump, an aide said.
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Ex-US president Barack Obama meets with South Sudan president Salva
Kiir in New York on 21 September 2011 (Photo: AP/Pablo Martinez
Monsivais)
Tor Deng Mawien, the presidential advisor on decentralization and
intergovernmental linkage said Kiir sent a congratulatory message to
his U.S. counterpart.
“As the government and as the president himself, he [Kiir] looks
forward for to improve better working relations with the new US
administration,” the presidential aide said Saturday.
According to the South Sudanese official, Kiir has “a very clear
vision and stance" on how he intends to approach issues of mutual
interest with the new U.S administration.
President Kiir, his aide stressed, pledged to unite the country
through the national dialogue he launched late last year to heal
wounds and bring change in Africa’s newest nation.
"The position of the government has been from the very beginning that
we will not punish, even those who do not agree with the government.
We want them to come to the table and talk instead of using guns.
Violence is the best way to address grievances”, further said Mawien.
One of the countries that recognized South Sudan’s independence on 9
July, 2011, the U.S. played a key role in helping create the 2005
Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that laid the groundwork for the
2011 referendum on self-determination, through which the people of
South Sudan overwhelmingly voted for independence.
Until now, several disputes between the two Sudans remain unresolved
post-independence, including demarcation of the border, status and
rights of the citizens of each country in the other, and the status of
Abyei region.
Currently, the U.S. government remains the leading international donor
to South Sudan, and provides significant humanitarian assistance to
the hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese citizens displaced or
otherwise affected since the start of the country’s crisis in December
2013.
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