Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Visits South Sudan

Jean-Pierre Lacroix (front left), Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, meets with Agnes Adlino Orifa Oswaha (second from left), Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of South Sudan; Anita Kiki Gbeho (centre), Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan; and Cecilia A.M. Adeng (second from right), Permanent Representative of South Sudan to the United Nations, as he arrives in Juba.

While in South Sudan, the Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, will meet with members of the diplomatic community on the ground, held talks with President Salva Kiir, and addressed Bangladeshi peacekeepers serving with the Mission, to whom he expressed his deepest condolences following the killing of Bangladeshi peacekeepers in a drone attack in Kadugli, Sudan.