Intensive Activities to Support Sudan’s Position in the Human Rights Council

Sudanhorizon – Mariam Abashar

The Attorney General, Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, Al-Fateh Tayfour, has revealed that intensive activities by Sudan’s missions in Geneva and New York and in a number of Sudanese embassies are undertaken to secure the necessary and required support for Sudan to thwart off attempts seeking to renew the mandate of the UN fact-finding mission.
He added that the deliberations in the Human Rights Council regarding the renewal of the mission’s mandate will take place at the end of the Human Rights Council meetings next October.

Tayfour expressed in a statement to “Sudanhorizon” news website his optimism that Sudan will be able to mobilize the required support to deny the opportunity for the countries supporting the renewal of the work of the mission.

An official source has meanwhile confirmed what was reported by some media outlets regarding the rejection of the Quartet Committee, charged with drafting the resolution on Sudan in the Human Rights Council (USA, Britain, Germany and Norway),of some recommendations by the UN fact-finding mission on Sudan that were included in the report.

The source pointed out that the committee agreed that the expected draft resolution should not include what was stated in the mission’s recommendations regarding sending UN military forces to Sudan to protect civilians, and also not to expand the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court to the entire country as stated in the recommendations.
The source considered that what the fact-finding mission recommended was part of the mandate of the UNSC and not the Human Rights Council, in addition to the fact that the draft resolution stressed the importance of adhering to the Jeddah Agreement.
The source considered what was achieved in the expected draft resolution a good step, noting that the recommendations rejected by the committee concerned with preparing the draft resolution are the same points that Sudan objected to and rejected in its response to the report of the UN fact-finding mission, indicating that the draft resolution will be voted on in the Human Rights Council in Geneva on October 29th.