Sudan Rejects ” Core Group” Draft Resolution at HRC,Describes it as Blackmail

Geneva – Sudanhorizon
Sudan’s Permanent Representative to the Human Rights Council (UN-HRC), Hassan Hamid, has stressed Sudan’s rejection of a draft resolution submitted by UK to the Council under the title “Western Core States.” He emphasized that the Sudanese government’s cooperation with human rights mechanisms is not subject to question or outbidding.
Human rights sources told Sudanhorizon that the British draft resolution equates the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), which are carrying out their constitutional duty to protect the country and its security, with the militias.
It also attempts to avoid recognizing the legitimacy of the government in place and casts doubt on the Sudanese justice system.
According to the sources, the resolution deliberately turns a blind eye to the role of external factors in fueling the conflict and supporting the Rapid Support Forces militia with resources and weapons.
In a statement delivered to the Human Rights Council during the opening session to adopt the draft resolution submitted on behalf of the “Western Core” group, the Sudanese representative explained that the sponsors of the resolution had turned a blind eye to the facts on the ground, most notably that Sudan now hosts a full country office of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and regularly receives the designated expert on the situation of human rights in Sudan and his assistants, in addition to the Security Council’s team of experts whose reports cover human rights and humanitarian issues.
He explained that the draft resolution equates the rebel militia, despite its shocking atrocities, with the Sudanese Armed Forces, which are fulfilling their constitutional duty to defend Sudan, which is facing an existential war targeting its people with genocide, displacement, and demographic change.
During its session, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a draft resolution to extend the mandate of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission in Sudan for an additional year. The resolution was passed with a majority of 24 votes in favor, 11 against, and 12 abstentions.
The delegate considered that this erroneous approach to describing the situation was what led to the prolongation of the war and caused the rebel militia to disregard international law and human rights, as well as all Security Council statements and resolutions, including Resolution 2736, which called on them to lift the siege on the city of El Fasher for a year and a half.
He emphasized that all of this happened and is happening because the proponents of this resolution equate this militia with the country’s national army.
The Sudanese delegate considered the resolution presented to the Council to be an infringement on the sovereignty of the state and its institutions, as well as an assault on the judicial system in Sudan and a call into question the competence, capacity, and integrity of the Sudanese judiciary, given its impeccable record and well-known history.
He questioned the principle of complementarity and its position on this Western decision. He added that the Council’s objective is to support national efforts and capacity building, rather than impose an alternative external mechanism on a country that cooperates to the fullest extent with human rights mechanisms. This is if the true purpose is to achieve justice and redress for victims, rather than to use the umbrella of human rights for political blackmail and pressure whenever the Sudanese Armed Forces achieve successive victories over the rebel militia.
He emphasized that a resolution of this degree of prejudice and politicization must be rejected by all countries that uphold and adhere to the United Nations Charter and the General Assembly resolution that established the Human Rights Council to replace its predecessor, the Commission on Human Rights, and to be an organ. Free from politicization and double standards, and without using human rights as an umbrella to target countries and destructively interfere in their affairs

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