![]() ![]() ![]() Welcoming the opportunity the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS), signed in Addis Ababa on 12 September 2018, represents for making the protection of children a priority as the country moves forward.Strongly condemning all violations and abuses that continue to be committed against children in South Sudan by all parties to the armed conflict, and expressing grave concern at the scale and brutal nature of violations and abuses against children, reminding them of their obligations under applicable international law, and urging them to take without delay all measures to immediately end all such violations and abuses and to prevent their reoccurrence, including those involving the recruitment and use of children, killing and maiming, rape and other forms of sexual violence, abductions, attacks against schools and hospitals and denial of humanitarian access, as well as the military use of schools in violation of applicable international law.To all parties to the armed conflict in South Sudan, in particular the SSPDF (formerly known as SPLA), the pro-Taban Deng SPLA in Opposition, the pro-Machar SPLA in Opposition and other armed groups, such as the White Army: At its seventy-sixth meeting, on 18 December 2018, the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict, in connection with the examination of the second report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in South Sudan (document S/2018/865) agreed to convey the following messages through a public statement by the Chair of the Working Group. ![]()
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