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Eliot Engel: “It would be a mistake to assume that, with the accession of Taban Deng Gai to the Vice Presidency, we have a government…”

On the recordSeptember 6, 2016
It would be a mistake to assume that, with the accession of Taban Deng Gai to the Vice Presidency, we have a government of national unity.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

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Doubt about the effectiveness of the new government in South Sudan.

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