South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit, has returned to Juba after participating in the 78th United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Kiir keys address at the UN Assembly focus on calls to lifting of the arms embargo, noting that the imposed sanctions are major impediments to the implementation of the peace agreement.
He raised concern that the sanction had derailed the deployment of the necessary unified forces.
The Foreign Affairs Minister, Dr. James Pitia Morgan said President Kiir conducted several bilateral meetings with other world leaders in America on global peace and security.
President Kiir met with the leadership of Caltech Investment an American- based Oil Company led by its Chief Overseer Mohammed Malik in New York on Friday, marking the official entrance of the American company into South Sudan’s Oil sector.
According to reports, the government has confirmed a 3 billion US dollar deal with the American Oil company, Caltech Investment, to invest in the oil sector in South Sudan.
The American-based company will partner with the government to purchase and take over the shares of the Malaysian State-own company, PETRONAS, which is now withdrawing from South Sudan’s oil sector.
The company is reportedly expected to deliver eight hundred million US dollars to South Sudan to kick-start the project in the next two months.
On his part, Presidential Affairs Minister Dr. Barnaba Marial Benjamin said South Sudan ministers held sideline meetings with their counterparts in New York.
President Kiir held several meetings with head of sates among them were, Albanian President Bajram, Slovenian President Natasa Pirc Musar, Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera, Swiss President, Alain Berset, for and the South Sudanese community in Diaspora in New York.