UN Security Council renews sanctions against South Sudan
Published on May 31, 2025
By IANS
- UNITED NATIONS — The Security Council adopted a resolution to renew for a
year, until May 31, 2026, an arms embargo against South Sudan as well as
targeted sanctions of travel ban and asset freeze against individuals and entities.
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- Resolution 2781, which was adopted with nine votes in
favor and six abstentions, also extends the mandate of the Panel of Experts,
which assists the work of the South Sudan Sanctions Committee, until July 1,
2026, Xinhua news agency reported.
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- The African members of the Security Council -- Algeria,
Sierra Leone, Somalia -- abstained, along with China, Pakistan and Russia.
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- The resolution reiterates the Security Council's
readiness to review arms embargo measures, through modification, suspension, or
progressive lifting of these measures, in light of progress achieved on the key
benchmarks as set out in Resolution 2577 of 2021, and encourages the South
Sudan authorities to achieve further progress in this regard.
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- It also decides to keep the targeted measures under
continuous review and expresses the Security Council's readiness to consider
adjusting the measures, through modifying, suspending, lifting or strengthening
measures to respond to the situation.
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- The resolution requests the UN secretary-general, in
close consultation with the UN Mission in South Sudan and the Panel of Experts,
to conduct, no later than April 15, 2026, an assessment of progress achieved on
the key benchmarks.
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- It also requests the South Sudanese authorities to
report, by the same date, to the Sanctions Committee on the progress achieved
in this regard.
