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Minister Goc addresses UNSC on narcotic drugs, counter-terrorism

Author: Wote | Published: January 24, 2025

Foreign Minister Ramdan Abdalla Goc adresses UN General Assembly. Sept 26, 2024. (-)

The Minister of Foreign Affairs has called on the UN Security Council to support African states in improving the livelihoods of their communities to prevent them from being lured into extremist groups.

Ramadan Mohammed Goc made the call while addressing the UN Security Council on strengthening African leadership in counter terrorism and advancing sustainable peace and security in New York.

He believes there is need for the security council to support mechanism that ensure direct and reliable financial resources for the 2063 African Union vision for peaceful and prosperous Africa.

“Socioeconomic development is fundamental to counter terrorism. Extremists group strive in environment where poverty, unemployment and inequality prissiest. Agenda of 2063 of the African Union vision for peaceful and prosperous Africa underscore the importance of addressing this root causes.

“South Sudan calls on this council to support development initiative and prioritize education, infrastructure, youth employment and empowerment of women by investing in our people by providing hope for better future will reduce the vulnerability of our communities to extremists’ ideologies.”

In September last year, President Salva Kiir consented to three international conventions against illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs, transnational organized crimes, and terrorism financing.

It included the 1999 International Conventions for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, which enhances international cooperation in devising and adopting effective measures for the prevention of the financing of terrorism.

The other one is the UN Convention against illicit traffic in Narcotic drugs and Psychotropic substances, adopted in 1988.

The Convention aims to limit the diversion and abuse of certain psychotropic substances, such as central nervous stimulants, sedative-hypnotics, and hallucinogens, which had resulted in public health and social problems in South Sudan.

Minister Ramadan Mohammed Goc however said there is need to strengthen the financial intelligence system and border security to disrupt such network.

“South Sudan recognizes the significant role of transnational organized crime in financing terrorism whether through illicit financial flow, drug trafficking or arms smuggling.

“We call on this council to support African states in strengthen the financial intelligence system and border security framework, regional cooperation and technical support from international partners are essential to disrupt this network”, he said

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