The above statement follows the sarcastic remark made by the current Secretary General of the Arab league Nabil Al-Araby that it would be to the benefit of South Sudan to join the Arab League instead of establishing diplomatic relations with the state of Israel.
"From my end I regret that South Sudan took this step [Kiir visiting Israel] and it is part of Sudan from my point of view," Al-Araby said in an interview with Qatar news agency (QNA). See, he even does not recognize that South Sudan is an independent nation, a member of the United Nations, and enjoys all the rights and privileges of a sovereign state. Our Ministry of Foreign Affairs should ask the Secretary General of the Arab League to apologize to the independent Republic of South Sudan and its people for still considering our country as part of Sudan, a different independent nation.
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