Juba — South Sudan on Friday expressed optimism about the possibility of exporting its crude to international markets by 2014 using an alternative pipeline passing through neighbouring Kenya, in what is an apparent attempt to avoid using the port of neighbouring Sudan with which it is engaged in a series of post secession disputes.
Speaking to journalists after a weekly cabinet meeting in Juba on Friday, the minister of information and broadcasting services, Barnaba Marial Benjamin, said the members of the cabinet had unanimously agreed to endorse the petroleum and mining policy framework of the oil ministry during deliberations chaired by vice-president Riek Machar Teny.
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