South Sudan Joins UN As 193rd Member

UNITED NATIONS — Newly independent South Sudan became the 193rd member of the United Nations on Thursday, welcomed into the international community amid an uneasy peace with the Sudanese government in the north. General Assembly President Joseph Deiss banged a gavel signaling South Sudan’s admission to the world body by acclamation as diplomats burst into applause. “Today, we are firmly entrenching South Sudan in the community of nations,” Deiss said. Independence for the country’s eight million people on Saturday was the climax of a 2005 peace agreement that ended decades of civil war with the Arab-dominated north and called for a referendum in which South Sudan voted…

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South Sudan Joins UN As 193rd Member

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