{"id":4081,"date":"2022-03-07T19:47:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T19:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=4081"},"modified":"2022-03-07T19:47:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T19:47:22","slug":"we-have-nothing-to-do-with-russia-ukraine-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/07\/we-have-nothing-to-do-with-russia-ukraine-war\/","title":{"rendered":"We have nothing to do with Russia-Ukraine war"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Makuei-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Makuei-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Makuei-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Makuei-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Makuei-2-165x109.jpg 165w, https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Makuei-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><strong><em>The Minister of Information Michael Makuei Lueth\/Courtesy Photo<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By Taban Henry<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister of Information Michael Makuei Lueth said the country has nothing to do with the Russia-Ukraine war as international condemnation continues on Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Responding to questions on South Sudan\u2019s position on the Russia-Ukraine crisis, Makuei said, \u201cour position on the crisis between Ukraine and Russia, we are in Africa, we have nothing to do with whatever is happening in Europe\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Sudan was among the 17 African countries that abstained from voting as the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly voted to condemn Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Sudan has not formally responded to why the country did not take part in the voting to condemn Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Voted by 141 of the 193 member states of the UN, the vote became only the first in 40 years when the General Assembly sat and passed a resolution to reprimand a member\u2019s aggression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenya, Ghana, Gabon, Rwanda, Djibouti, Congo, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo voted yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some 35 countries abstained from the vote, including Russia and China, and African states \u2013 Burundi, Senegal, South Sudan, South Africa, Uganda, Mali and Mozambique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ethiopia did not take part in the voting, but Eritrea, North Korea and Syria voted against the resolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Taban Henry The Minister of Information Michael Makuei Lueth said the country has nothing to do with the Russia-Ukraine war as international condemnation continues on Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. Responding to questions on South Sudan\u2019s position on the Russia-Ukraine crisis, Makuei said, \u201cour position on the crisis between Ukraine<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/07\/we-have-nothing-to-do-with-russia-ukraine-war\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national","category-news","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4083,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081\/revisions\/4083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}