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UN Welcomes South Sudan as 193rd Member State

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–15 July 2011. The General Assembly yesterday admitted the Republic of South Sudan as the 193rd member of the United Nations, welcoming the newly independent country to the community of nations.

South Sudan’s independence from the rest of Sudan is the result of the January 2011 referendum held under the terms of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended the decades-long civil war between the North and the South.

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