U.S. names ambassadorial nominee to South Sudan
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August 18, 2011 (WASHINGTON) – The United States. president Barack
Obama announced today his intention to nominate a senior official at
the State Department to become the country’s first ambassador to South
Sudan.
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United States Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Affairs
and ambassadorial nominee to South Sudan (AP)
The world’s newest nation came to light last month after its citizens
voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence from the Arab-Muslim
dominated north. Washington was one of the earliest recognizers of
South Sudan.
It was the U.S. brokered peace accord signed in 2005 between North and
South Sudan that gave people of Southern Sudan the right of self
determination.
The nominee, Susan Page, currently serves as deputy assistant
secretary of state for the Bureau of African Affairs.
The White House in a press release said that Page also served Regional
Director for Southern and East Africa at the National Democratic
Institute. From 2005 to 2007, she served as the Director of the Rule
of Law and Judicial System Advisory Unit at the United Nations Peace
Support Mission to the Sudan. From 2002 to 2005, Page was the legal
advisor to the Intergovernmental Authority on Development Secretariat
for Peace in the Sudan.
Page has a doctorate in law from Harvard and has in Rwanda, Botswana
and Kenya. Her nomination announced Thursday must be approved by the
Senate which is currently in recess.
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