Sudan Welcomes the OIC’s Final Statement

Port Sudan – Sudanhorizon

The Sudanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Hussein Awad Ali, welcomed the decision of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, which considered the Rapid Support Forces militia as “rebel forces” and the organization’s solidarity with Sudan and its consideration of the Jeddah platform as the main platform for negotiations and the necessity of implementing its outcomes.

The Minister expressed, according to a press statement issued by the office of the official spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday night, his appreciation to the member states of the organization, which is one of the largest organizations after the United Nations, “for their solidarity with Sudan and their strong support for it”, and considered that the decision embodies the growing international and regional awareness of the reality of the militia and that it is nothing more than a rebel and terrorist force.

The final statement of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation affirmed its full solidarity with Sudan in the face of the continuing armed conflict due to the rebel Rapid Support Forces, and the organization stressed the importance of preserving the security and stability of Sudan and respecting its sovereignty and territorial integrity. It also considered the Jeddah platform as the basis for any negotiations, calling for implementing all its provisions and outcomes.

The Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, at its 50th session held in Yaoundé, Cameroon, on 29-30 August 2024, adopted the resolution on Sudan. According to a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the resolution included an affirmation of full solidarity with the Republic of Sudan in the face of the armed conflict caused by the rebel Rapid Support Forces, and adopted the description of the Rapid Support Militia as “rebel forces”, for the first time in the resolutions of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. It also stressed the importance of preserving security and stability and respecting the unity, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of Sudan. It also considered the Jeddah Forum the main platform for negotiations and stressed the need to implement all its provisions and outcomes.

Ambassador Dafallah Al-Haj Ali, Sudan’s Permanent Representative to the Organization, led the country’s delegation to the meeting. The delegation participated actively in the session and provided extensive details on the violations and atrocities committed by the rebel militia against unarmed civilians, targeting residential areas, safe villages, and hospitals, and committing several massacres, in addition to detaining several thousand innocent citizens after kidnapping them from their homes or from the public street.

The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) and the League of Arab States have previously described the militia as such.

Sudan has been calling on international and regional organizations and the international community as a whole to consider the militia a rebel and terrorist group that threatens the safety of the state and regional and international security and stability, and the minister described what was achieved in Yaoundé as a step in this direction and a victory for Sudanese diplomacy.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs pledged to double efforts and endeavors at the external level and through all international and regional platforms to expose the war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes of genocide that the rebel militia has been committing, with the aim of classifying it as a terrorist organization.