South Sudan said it would now allow a man who was deported from the United States, in a dramatic climb that aims to defuse the visa row between the two countries.
On Saturday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio It announced that the United States will cancel the American visas for all southern Sudanese. He said he had a response to South Sudan’s refusal to accept the return of its citizens, which are removed from the United States.
In its initial reaction, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in South Sudan said that this step is based on an issue related to a person who was incorrectly identified as southern Sudan and was returned as a result.
The government now says it will allow the man to enter the country “in the spirit of friendly relations.”
He adds that the man who was deported, known to be from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, can reach the capital, Juba, early on Wednesday.
As a result of this decision, the government issued instructions to the relevant authorities at Juba International Airport to facilitate [his] The arrival of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in South Sudan in a statement on Tuesday.
In reference to other possible removal operations, the ministry said that the country is committed to supporting the return of its “investigators”, who are scheduled to be deported from the United States.
The American step at the weekend was the first time that the United States has targeted all passports holders from a particular country since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, after holding an anti -immigration platform, with the promise of “collective deportation”.
In his statement on Saturday, Rubio said that the United States will also prevent any citizens coming in southern Sudan, the latest country in the world, in the American entry ports.
He blamed “the failure of the transitional government in South Sudan to accept the return of its hostile citizens in a timely manner.”
“We will be ready to review these measures when South Sudan is in full cooperation,” he added.
But in a statement on Monday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in South Sudan said it “regrets” the comprehensive measure against all citizens of the country on the basis of “an isolated incident that involves a distortion by an individual who is not a southern citizen of South Sudan.”
She said that the man in the middle of the visa class was a Congolese citizen and returned to the United States. He added that all supportive evidence was shared with US officials.
But Deputy Foreign Minister Christopher Landau The interpretation of South Sudan refused as “unrelated to law”And, saying that the African Country Embassy in Washington “is certified by this particular person as one of their citizens.”
“It is unacceptable and irresponsible for government officials in South Sudan to guess secondly to determine their own embassy,” Landaw added.
The Minister of Information in South Sudan told Michael McCoy Laith, the US News Agency that the United States “is trying to find errors with the tense situation” in the country because there is no sovereign nation that accepts foreign deportees.
This row comes with the growth of fears that South Sudan may come back to the civil war after the first vice president, Rick Maher, under the arrest of the house.
The President of South Sudan accused Salva Kiir Mathur of raising a new revolution.
Last month, the United States has ordered all its unpredictable employees in southern Sudan with the outbreak of fighting in one part of the country, threatening a fragile agreement in peace in 2018, which ended a five -year civil war.
South Sudanese in the United States were previously granted the temporary protected situation (TPS), allowing them to stay in the United States for a specific period of time.
TPS for the southern Sudanese in the United States was scheduled to end on May 3.
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