UN Security Council
2023

Welcoming that some progress was achieved in the implementation of the priority measures defined in paragraph 9 of resolution 2625 (2022), including continued security provided to re-designated protection of civilian sites, initiation of a permanent constitution-making process, ensuring better freedom of movement of UNMISS and the graduation of a first phase of the necessary unified forces, Expressing deep concern over the continued intensification of all forms of violence prolonging the political, security, economic, and humanitarian crisis in most parts of the country, condemning the mobilization of armed groups by parties to the conflict and encouragement of defections, including by members of the government forces and armed opposition groups, and further recognizing that intercommunal violence in South Sudan is politically and economically linked to national -level violence and corruption undertaken by South Sudan’s previous civil war actors in the capital, and encouraging UNMISS to continue to support and protect community-led peace dialogue processes, in coordination with South Sudanese authorities, in order to strengthen local community engagement, empowerment, and national reconciliation, 23-04749 (E) *2304749* S/RES/2677 (2023)