Sai Malik Agar, vice-chairman of Sudan's Transitional Sovereign Council, said, "US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's invitation to Abdel Fatah al-Burhan, Chairman of Sudan's Transitional Sovereign Council, to visit the Jeddah Dialogue Forum is contempt for Sudan." It is a symbol and cannot be accepted." Council, O Wednesday.
He made the remarks while addressing a political conference in Port Sudan, the capital of the Red Sea state in eastern Sudan, Xinhua news agency reported.
Agar said, "Sudan has not and will not agree to go to Jeddah, not because we do not want peace, but because there must be a foundation for peace. We will not accept this without consultation."
The current stage cannot afford the interference of political parties with their different agendas, he said, stressing that there is a need to end the conflict and achieve stability before moving towards a national consensus through Sudanese-Sudanese dialogue. should be given priority.Earlier, Blinken had a phone conversation with al-Burhan, during which he called for an end to the conflict in Sudan, allowing humanitarian access and the resumption of Jeddah talks, a meeting of the Sovereign Council on Wednesday According to the statement.
On May 6, 2023, Saudi Arabia and the US held a peace initiative in Jeddah, later known as the Jeddah Dialogue Forum, as the first serious attempt to end the fighting in Sudan.
Since then, the ceasefire has been agreed upon and violated several times, with both sides accusing the other of violating it.
The Jeddah talks were suspended last December due to fundamental differences between the Sudanese warring parties.
Deadly clashes between the SAF and the RSF have been raging in Sudan since April 15, 2023, killing 15,550 people and displacing 8.8 million others, according to the latest estimate from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
He made the remarks while addressing a political conference in Port Sudan, the capital of the Red Sea state in eastern Sudan, Xinhua news agency reported.
Agar said, "Sudan has not and will not agree to go to Jeddah, not because we do not want peace, but because there must be a foundation for peace. We will not accept this without consultation."
The current stage cannot afford the interference of political parties with their different agendas, he said, stressing that there is a need to end the conflict and achieve stability before moving towards a national consensus through Sudanese-Sudanese dialogue. should be given priority.Earlier, Blinken had a phone conversation with al-Burhan, during which he called for an end to the conflict in Sudan, allowing humanitarian access and the resumption of Jeddah talks, a meeting of the Sovereign Council on Wednesday According to the statement.
On May 6, 2023, Saudi Arabia and the US held a peace initiative in Jeddah, later known as the Jeddah Dialogue Forum, as the first serious attempt to end the fighting in Sudan.
Since then, the ceasefire has been agreed upon and violated several times, with both sides accusing the other of violating it.
The Jeddah talks were suspended last December due to fundamental differences between the Sudanese warring parties.
Deadly clashes between the SAF and the RSF have been raging in Sudan since April 15, 2023, killing 15,550 people and displacing 8.8 million others, according to the latest estimate from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
