As Al-Burhan Heads to New York, Sudan Calls for an Arms Embargo on Terrorist Groups

Port Sudan – New York – Sudanhorizon

Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, Chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, will leave for New York tomorrow (Tuesday) to participate in the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly and deliver Sudan’s speech before it.

Official sources from the Sudanhorizon news website reported that the advance delegation for Al-Burhan’s participation left for New York to arrange the visit program.

Meanwhile, the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Hussein Awad, participated in the “Future Summit”, which began yesterday, representing the Chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council. He was joined by Ambassador Al-Harith Idris Al-Harith, Permanent Representative of the Sudan Mission to the United Nations, Ambassador Anas Al-Tayeb Al-Jilani, Director General of International Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and members of the Sudan Permanent Mission in New York.

The Future Summit will be held over two days (yesterday and today) under the slogan “Multilateral Solutions for a Better Tomorrow” on the sidelines of the high-level week meetings of the United Nations General Assembly, where the Future Summit document was adopted by consensus in the first session yesterday.

The document is considered a global pledge that reflects the spirit and respect for multilateralism, which represents a comprehensive charter for reforming the international system and international financial institutions, especially the Security Council. The document also addressed the goals of sustainable development, combating poverty, and working to bridge the digital gap between developing and developed countries, the need to address the challenges of climate change, and caring for youth issues and their future.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs delivered Sudan’s statement before the summit, in which he addressed developments in Sudan and the aggressive war launched by the rebel Rapid Support Militia against the Sudanese people, listing some of its crimes and calling on the international community to condemn it and classify it as a terrorist group.

The Minister also called for the necessity of adhering to international commitments related to light weapons and others, including the ban on supplying and supplying terrorist groups and rebel militias with weapons and ammunition, especially in cases of armed conflict, in line with the spirit of the Future Document, which calls for creating a world free of wars.

In a related context, the Minister of Foreign Affairs held a meeting with his Egyptian counterpart, Badr Abdel Aati, on the sidelines of the high-level week meetings. The Minister expressed the Sudanese government’s thanks and appreciation to the Arab Republic of Egypt for its supportive and steadfast position on Sudan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity in all international and regional forums.

For his part, the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs expressed Egypt’s keenness on Sudan’s security and stability and stressed the importance of coordination in the two countries’ common interests at all levels, confirming the historical and eternal ties between them.