Deputy Secretary-General’s press conference on Rights up Front Action Plan
New York, 19 December 2013
DSG: There is a connection between the two subjects today and I will mainly brief you on the Rights Up Front initiative, but perhaps should pick up where Farhan ended and, of course, tell you how deeply concerned the Secretary-General and I and our colleagues about the current situation in South Sudan. Our base in Akobo, Jonglei State was attacked and we have reports that lives are lost. We don’t have the details of that yet. And, of course, the Secretary-General and I both condemn this attack in the strongest terms. I welcome reports this morning that President Salva Kiir is willing to enter into talks and deplore the call by some from the [Riek] Machar camp to topple the Government. In fact we have reports also about a willingness to go into dialogue from that side.
