WASHINGTON – The Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared Saturday that the United States had been revoking all of the visas held by the holders of the passport of South Sudan, accusing the federal government of the African nation of “profiting from the United States”.
“Each nation should settle for the return of its residents in a well timed method when one other nation, together with the United States, tries to take away them,” stated Rubio in a declaration, including that “the transition authorities of South Sudan has not managed to totally respect this precept”.
In addition to revoking the visas, Rubio stated that the United States “would forestall additional emissions to stop the entrances of the southern Sudan passport within the United States”.
The political panorama of South Sudan is fragile and the current violence between authorities troops and armed opposition teams has intensified tensions.
Last week, the Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres urged the regional and worldwide leaders to stop South Sudan from falling “on the abyss” in one other civil warfare.
Guterres warned that the newest and one among his poorest nations is going through “a safety emergency” with intensified clashes and a “political upheaval” that culminate with the arrest of final week by the federal government of the primary vice -president Riek Machar.
