Co-Chairs of Congressional Caucus on Sudan and South Sudan Call for Action on South Sudan Violence
Washington, D.C.— Today, Congressional Caucus on Sudan and South Sudan co-chairs Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Reps. Frank Wolf (R-VA), Michael Capuano (D-MA), and Michael McCaul (R-TX) were joined by 48 other members of Congress in sending a bipartisan letter to the Obama Administration. The letter details the need to sustain high-level engagement between the United States and South Sudan in brokering a durable peace, expanding access to humanitarian programs, and holding perpetrators of human rights abuses accountable.
The letter is addressed to Secretary of State John Kerry and reads, in part: “The United States has committed itself to helping mediate the crisis, and although we welcome the sustained attention the situation has received, the continued violence compels our government to pursue an even greater role in facilitating and supporting a lasting reconciliation so that this type of violence does not reoccur.”
Full text of the letter can be found here.