South Sudan’s government says it has reservations on the recent report published by the US-based think-tank Council on Foreign Relations calling for an international transitional administration established by the United Nations and the African Union to be placed over South Sudan.

Mawien Makol, Spokesman of the Foreign Ministry, told Radio Tamazuj today that his government doesn’t want to comment on the report."I cannot comment on this matter now, because we have not yet received any official letter from the United Nations, so I cannot say more than that ", said Mawien.

The government official pointed out that South Sudan is a sovereign country and that the current government is having very good relations with many different countries around the world.

Mawien claimed that Kiir’s government is cooperating with the United Nations to make peace in South Sudan. He added that they also accepted the decision taken by the African Union to deploy a regional force in the capital Juba.

Katherine Almquist Knopf, the author of the report and director of the Africa Center for Strategic Studies based at the National Defense University, said that the international transitional administration is the only realistic path to end the violence and to allow South Sudan the kind of “clean break” from its leaders and power structures that can restore the country to viability.

The report recommended the United Nations and the AU to lead the transitional administration with an executive mandate for ten to fifteen years to maintain the country’s territorial integrity, provide basic governance and public services, rebuild the shattered economy, and establish the political and constitutional framework for the transition to full sovereignty.

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