US proposes UN arms embargo on South Sudan

Differences about the structure of the army, demilitarization and the system of governance in the oil- rich Upper Nile state are blocking a deal, Arik said.

Rebel general James Koang Chuol said his troops had seized Pageri, claiming they now controlled the key highway.

“It is unacceptable because it has never happened anywhere whereby the security of a state and the head of an elected government are handed over to a foreign element”, he said.

Aug. 17, 2015: South Sudan’s rebel leader Riek Machar, center-left with back to camera, shakes hands with South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir, center-right sporting a black hat, after prolonged peace negotiations in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He accused Juba government of not interested to bring peace in the country.

The Security Council is expected to vote on the resolution by that deadline.

“That’s obviously encouraging”, Kirby told reporters.

Aguer, meanwhile, accused the rebels of breaking the deal.

Riak Machar signed the peace agreement but the Government side declined to sign the agreement as the deadline fell.

Like a barometer of conflict, the UN said Monday that the number sheltering inside its peacekeeping bases had risen by a third in just over a month to nearly 200,000 civilians.

In the recent few weeks the international community became convinced that Sudan could not be excluded from the equation of resolving the dilemma of South Sudan considering it as the most important player that can stop the war.

The government refused to sign the power-sharing deal, despite the threat of international sanctions.

Both the US and Britain say the UN Security Council must act to pressure those preventing an end to the conflict that has killed thousand.

African Union Commission chief Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma also condemned the setback.

But government officials denounced the deal to end 20-months of war as a “sellout”, saying it was not possible to sign a credible agreement because the rebel forces have split.

The agreement signed by rebel leader Machar and SPLM Secretary General and former detainee Pagan Amum lead to the formation of a transition government.

On South Sudan’s independence day in July, Rice said “President Kiir and Riek Machar and their cronies are personally responsible for this new war and self-inflicted disaster” and that only the two leaders could end the violence and establish a transitional government. “It is a sell-out and we will not accept that”, Kiir spokesman and South Sudan Information Minister Michael Makuei Lueth said on Tuesday.