JUBA – South Sudan is on course to ratify the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime after the council of ministers passed three supplementary protocols at an extraordinary sitting held on Friday.
The Information minister, Micheal Makuei, said his Justice and Constitutional Affairs counterpart, Ruben Madol presented the protocols before the meeting of cabinet.
“Thereafter, we listened to a presentation from the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs on three conventions; number one, was the UN Convention Against Transnational Crime,” he said.
The protocol prevent, suppress and punish trafficking in persons, in addition to preventing the practice of smuggling of migrants by land, sea and air as well as the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms.
“All these three protocols, they constitute part and parcel of the presentation and after thorough discussion, and deliberation on this, they were all passed to the next level,” he stressed.
Cabinet, Makuei said, directed the Justice minister to table the international treaty before the national Parliament for further scrutiny and endorsement.
The United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on November 15, 2002.
Last year, a communique issued at the end of a ministerial meeting on migration governance in Juba urged South Sudan to ratify and domesticate the UN Convention Against Transitional Organized Crime (UNTOC).