{UAH} Kirr says South Sudan will not cooperate with UN Approved Peacekeeping Force

The UN Security Council has approved the deployment of an additional 4,000-strong peacekeeping force in South Sudan, after recent fighting threatened to send the country back to all-out civil war.

In response to the vote on Friday, a spokesman for President Salva Kiir said the government would not accept the UN's decision and would not cooperate with it.

"That is very unfortunate and we are not going to 'cooperate' on that because we will not allow our country to be taken over by the UN," Kiir's spokesman Ateny Wek Ateny told Reuters news agency.

"Any force that will be called Juba Protection force will not be accepted."

The members of the council backed the US-drafted resolution earlier on Friday with 11 votes and four abstentions.

Al Jazeera's Mike Hanna, reporting from the UN headquarters in New York, said that as early as of next week, an "assessment team" would head to South Sudan to start the arrangement for the creation of the "protection force".

Members of the force will be drawn from regional countries in Africa, and it will be tasked to protect the airport and promote "safe and free movement" in and out of the capital.

The South Sudanese government had warned that the deployment of more UN forces would "seriously undermines" its sovereignty.

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