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Dick Lugar: When the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), signed in 2005, finally achieved the separation of South Sudan from the…

On the recordMarch 13, 2012
When the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), signed in 2005, finally achieved the separation of South Sudan from the north last July, it was hoped that the petroleum wealth they shared--oil from the south is exported through pipelines in the north--would be deemed too precious for either side to forgo.
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Dick Lugar
Republican · Indiana

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Lugar discusses the hopes for peace and economic cooperation post-separation of South Sudan.

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