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[image: email] Email <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?iframe&page=enviar_email_articulo&id_article=61925> [image: print] Print <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?iframe&page=imprimable&id_article=61925> [image: pdf]Save <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=spipdf&spipdf=spipdf_article&id_article=61925&nom_fichier=article_61925> [image: separation] [image: increase] <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article61925#> [image: decrease] <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article61925#> [image: separation] [image: separation] ------------------------------ March 18, 2017 (JUBA) – South Sudan government has resolved to establish a ministry for foreign affairs, an institution that would be tasked to coordinate regional relations. [image: JPEG - 12.2 kb]*South Sudanese information minister Michael Makuei Lueth attends a press conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 5 January 2014 (Photo: AP/Elias Asmara) * This was reached at during the weekly council of minister’s meeting chaired by the South Sudanese leader, Salva Kiir Friday. The information minister, Michael Makuei Lueth, said a minister will be appointed by the president, regardless of criticisms over the peace agreement, which limits the number of the national ministers to 30 be shared by the various political partners to the August 2015 peace accord. “The Council of Ministers has resolved to form a Minister of East African Affairs and gave the President the go-ahead to appoint the minister,” said Makuei. War-torn South Sudan became a member of the East African regional body (EAC) in 2016, joining Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania. South Sudan appointed seven representatives for the East African Legislative Assembly last week and will appoint members to sit on the East African Court in Arusha, Tanzania. (ST) Comments on the Sudan Tribune website must abide by the following rules. Contravention of these rules will lead to the user losing their Sudan Tribune account with immediate effect. - No inciting violence - No inappropriate or offensive language - No racism, tribalism or sectarianism - No inappropriate or derogatory remarks - No deviation from the topic of the article - No advertising, spamming or links - No incomprehensible comments Due to the unprecedented amount of racist and offensive language on the site, Sudan Tribune tries to vet all comments on the site. There is now also a limit of 400 words per comment. If you want to express yourself in more detail than this allows, please e-mail your comment as an article to [email protected] Kind regards, The Sudan Tribune editorial team. <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article61925#forum> 19 March 05:31, by Paul Ongee Yes, this was supposed to be established sometimes back. It’s not too late sine the process of admission of South Sudan to the EAC has been tedious. South Sudan foreign policy must correspond with the policy of its neighbor because foreign nationals are taking advantage of our system. You know what I mean? -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14opixSBRhtmrSUafzfm_pS6VvqsPxipFx99wn9HyqH5VWw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
