{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Radio Tamazuj","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.radiotamazuj.org\/en","title":"US Republican rep: \u2018oil roads could be built\u2019 - Radio Tamazuj","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"d57dQN8Czy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotamazuj.org\/en\/news\/article\/us-republican-rep-oil-roads-could-be-built\">US Republican rep: \u2018oil roads could be built\u2019<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.radiotamazuj.org\/en\/news\/article\/us-republican-rep-oil-roads-could-be-built\/embed#?secret=d57dQN8Czy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;US Republican rep: \u2018oil roads could be built\u2019&#8221; &#8212; Radio Tamazuj\" data-secret=\"d57dQN8Czy\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/\/# sourceURL=https:\/\/www.radiotamazuj.org\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-embed.min.js\n\/* ]]> *\/\n<\/script>\n","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/www.radiotamazuj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/58efab93896f0.jpeg","thumbnail_width":880,"thumbnail_height":386,"description":"US Congressman Steve Pearce advised South Sudanese leaders on Monday that they could build roads quickly in order to export crude oil via Ethiopia. He was speaking to press in Juba after a meeting with the South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit.The emergency measure would restore some revenue to the cash-starved government of the new nation, presumably only until it regains access rights to the pipelines to Port Sudan.\u201cI believe that South Sudan by moving oil through trucks to Ethiopia could begin immediately. I believe the roads could be built,\u201d said Pearce.Pearce is a Republican member of the US House of Representatives. He formerly owned an oilfield services company in the state of New Mexico.\u201cWe use dirt roads, gravel roads \u2013 we use any kind of road that\u2019s necessary. And I believe that you could be trucking oil within three weeks, four weeks maximum, across pretty good crushed-rock roads,\u201d he said, referring to potential routes across Upper Nile state toward the Gambella region of Ethiopia.The lawmaker\u2019s proposal was framed clearly as a personal opinion. It has not been backed publically by any official in the executive branch of the US Government.Nonetheless, the idea was aired to the highest level of the South Sudanese government, and on the state media, at a time of significant diplomatic posturing ahead of the African Union\u00a0Summit\u00a0next week, during which the Sudanese and South Sudanese presidents are expected to hold face-to-face talks.Sudan\u2019s foreign minister and other top officials have been touring the continent to build support for their own positions. They are particularly anxious that the AU Peace and Security Council not refer the Abyei issue to the UN Security Council.Four other Republican legislators accompanied Pearce: Senator James Inhofe, Senator John Boozman, Congressman Vernon Buchanan and Congressman Erik Paulsen.Inhofe was the most senior of the visiting lawmakers. He implied in remarks to the press after meeting President Kiir that the US would be interested to extend its existing programme of military assistance to South Sudan as well as support negotiations on the oil shut-down.\u201cYou have some great resources here. You have your oil and gas resources. You have ways that you can actually develop those resources to your benefit,\u201d said Inhofe.He continued: \u201cThe whole idea of freezing up a pipeline doesn\u2019t make any sense. So we\u2019re talking to them [the Sudanese government] about ways we might be able to do it. I happen to be the lead on the Senate armed services committee; we\u2019re also talking about how we might be able to be of help to our good friend the president.\u201dAs ranking member of the armed services committee \u2014\u00a0a position he succeeded from former presidential contender Senator John McCain \u2014\u00a0Inhof has considerable influence over military spending and oversight of operations, and is\u00a0junior only to the Democratic committee chairman Senator Carl Levin.Inhof, who politically opposes President Obama, nonetheless strongly backed the president\u2019s order in October 2011 to deploy 100 US special forces troops to central Africa, a move aimed at destroying the Lord\u2019s Resistance Army in western South Sudan, Congo and Central African Republic.Meanwhile, in another development out of Washington, the US Government this week hosted representatives of the SPLM-N, the northern opposition group that before 2011 was formally linked to Juba through the SPLA 9th and 10th divisions in Kordofan and Blue Nile. It was not clear what was the agenda of their visit.By Daniel van OudenarenPhoto: Steve Pearce campaigns for congress in New Mexico (peapleforpearce.com)\u00a0"}