UN Mission in South Sudan

(asked on 29th June 2017) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to help to ensure that the UN Mission in South Sudan can fulfil its mandate in that country.


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Rory Stewart
This question was answered on 7th July 2017

The UK strongly supports the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), and we continue to lobby the Government of South Sudan to cooperate fully with the mission so that it is able to fulfil its mandate to protect civilians, monitor the human rights situation in South Sudan, and secure the delivery of humanitarian aid.

As part of our commitment to the pursuit of peace and stability in South Sudan, we have contributed up to 400 medical and engineering troops to UNMISS to provide vital engineering and medical support, which will help to improve the delivery of the mission. This is the UK's largest global deployment of UN peacekeeping troops.

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