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Foreign Minister stresses importance of supporting Sudan's Embassies with their requirement
Minister of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Dr. Ali Yousuf Ahmed Al-Sharif has stressed the importance of supporting Sudan's diplomatic missions abroad with their requirements and resolving the impediments they face, underlining the necessity of developing relations with the countries of representation. This came during his meeting at the Ministry's headquarters on Wednesday with ambassadors and diplomats at the beginning of his duties at the ministry. The minister said, in a statement to (SUNA), that he discussed with them the progress of work in the ministry, future plans and foreign policy priorities for the post-war period. The minister had returned from a tour that included Cairo, Riyadh and Baku, where he attended the emergency Arab-Islamic summit in Riyadh and the climate change summit in Azerbaijan, during which he met with a number of his counterparts participating in these summits and discussed with them bilateral relations between Sudan and these countries and their support for Sudan in regional and international forums.
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Coordination of Resolution 1591 on Darfur receives UN Security Council team of experts, briefs them on RSF militia violations
The National Coordination for Follow-up of Resolution 1591 of 2005 on Darfur states briefed the UN Security Council team of experts on the extent of the violations and assaults committed by the rebel Rapid Support Forces (RSF)/ (Al-Dagalo) militia against civilians in Darfur and a number of various Sudanese states. This came during the meeting held on Sunday, in the presence of the membership of the National Coordination for Follow-up of the Resolution of Resolution 1591 of 2005 on Darfur affiliated with the Higher Committee for Coordination with the United Nations, headed by the member of the Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC), Assistant Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces (SAF), Lieutenant General Engineer Ibrahim Jabir, and the UN Security Council team of experts.
The Head of the National Coordination for Follow-up of Resolution 1591, Major General (Rtd) Ezz-Eddin Osman Taha, explained that the group of experts was briefed on the current situation in the country and Sudan's efforts to achieve peace, renewing Sudan's welcome to the visit of the UN Security Council team of experts, expressing readiness to provide all the facilities required to implement the team's mission in accordance with the relevant mandate. Major General (Rtd) Taha pointed out that this 3-day visit by the team of experts is the first since the outbreak of the war, during which it will meet with a number of national bodies and institutions concerned with the following up on implementation of the resolution.
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The Republic of Sudan
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In the past two days, the RSF Janjaweed militia committed yet another massacre in Al-Hilaliya city, Al-Jazira State. The death toll of the massacre so far is 120 martyrs, killed either by bullets or as a result of food poisoning and lack of medical care at the illegal detention centers where the militia is holding several hundred civilians, including women and children, as hostages. This heinous crime comes shortly after the carnage carried out by the militia over the last two weeks in the village of Al-Sariha and 58 other villages and 6 towns east of Al-Jazira, where hundreds of civilians were killed during the horrific revenge attacks by the Janjaweed mercenaries following the defection of a number of the militia leaders. International condemnations of these massacres are still ongoing.
The latest horrific massacre also coincides with a similar brutal revenge campaign by the militia against defenseless villagers in North Darfur, following the failure of its repeated attacks on Al-Fasher. During this campaign, the RSF Janjaweed set more than 40 villages ablaze. The above-described pattern clearly indicates that the terrorist militia does not care about verbal condemnations or international resolutions that are not supported by decisive measures to ensure implementation. This is evidenced by the militia’s response to UN Security Council Resolution No. 2736, issued nearly six months ago. In flagrant contempt of the Security Council resolution, the militia has further intensified its shelling of residential areas and IDP camps in the city.
The systematic escalation of massacres and atrocities by the savage militia aims to instigate an international military intervention in Sudan under the pretext of protecting civilians. Its ultimate goal is to avoid complete military defeat and retain the sites it currently occupies, including hundreds of thousands of civilian homes in the capital and other cities, while continuing the detention of thousands of civilian hostages in secret detention centers. This is precisely the modus operandi of terrorist groups. Thus, instead of giving in to this terrorist blackmail by entertaining the idea of military intervention, the international community ought to characterize the Janjaweed militia as a terrorist group, pursue its leaders and members as fugitives wanted by international justice, and treat those abetting or supporting it, or hosting its leaders and spokesmen, as sponsors of terrorism complicit in the crimes of the militia.
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Foreign Minister reviews with his Egyptian counterpart core issues of concern to both countries
Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Ali Yousuf Al-Sharif met with Egyptian Foreign Minister Dr. Badr Abdel-Aati on Wednesday evening at the headquarters of the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Cairo.
The meeting touched on bilateral relations between the two countries and ways to develop them to include all levels of cooperation, mutual support and coordination at the highest levels regarding the key issues of concern to both countries. The meeting also discussed a number of regional and international issues of joint interest.
The Egyptian Minister affirmed Egypt's firm position on supporting and backing Sudan and preserving its institutions as they are the sole guarantor of the country's unity. He stressed that Egypt will spare no effort in supporting Sudan and making its voice heard in any forum in which it participates.
Dr. Al-Sharif praised the strong and supportive Egyptian position towards Sudan, pointing out that Sudan is a vital area for Egyptian national security and therefore it is necessary to work together to prepare a roadmap to boost and strengthen relations and get Sudan out of the crisis it is going through.
Foreign Minister expressed gratefulness to the Arab Republic of Egypt for hosting a large number of Sudanese who were exiled due to the unjust war waged by the oulaw Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia. He raised a number of issues of concern to the Sudanese in Egypt; including the issue of the difficulty of obtaining an entry visa to Egypt and residence, the complications facing Sudanese schools and students studying in Egyptian universities and the impediments facing the work of Sudanese doctors in Egypt. Some proposals were presented and some solutions were agreed upon, which the Egyptian Foreign Minister promised to follow up on under his personal supervision with the relevant authorities in Egypt.