The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations will be in South Sudan for a three-day visit starting Friday.
Herve Ladsous comes to South Sudan ‘to take stock of progress, achievements and challenges encountered by South Sudan and the United Nations Mission in South Sudan or UNMISS in the past 12 months’, the Mission said in a press statement released on Thursday.
Mr Ladsous will pay special tribute to the UNMISS civilian and military staff who lost their lives in the service of peace in South Sudan.
Mr Ladsous scheduled meetings with the President of the Republic, the Vice-President, the ministers of Foreign Affairs, Interior and Defense, and the Chief of General Staff.