Al-Yurae, Khartoum – The statement of the US ambassador to Khartoum, John Godfrey, last Tuesday, that Sudan’s interests will be affected if the Sudanese government allows the establishment of a Russian military facility on the Red Sea in the east of the country, which been announced as a consultations with Russia by Bashir government and resurface after the coup leader visited Russia previously, where local Newspaper quoted the US ambassador saying: “We followed news reports revealing that Russia was seeking to implement an earlier agreement with (former Sudanese President Omar) al-Bashir in 2017 to establish a naval facility in Port Sudan.” “It is important to say that international isolation around Russia and (Russian] President Vladimir Putin is currently increasing due to the unjustified invasion of Ukraine.”
In a backlash from the Russian embassy to his remarks, local newspapers on Wednesday quoted in return a statement from the Russian embassy saying, “John Godfrey, the newly appointed U.S. ambassador to the country, compensates for the superficiality of his knowledge of Sudan with suspicious sources by touching on Sudanese-Russian relations, and apparently, because of his inexperience and reproduction of the US State Department’s condescending dealings, far from diplomatic appropriateness, the U.S. ambassador, like his predecessors, is trying to speak to the Sudanese people in the language of threats and ultimate’s about Khartoum’s sovereignty in its foreign policies”.
“His arguments about the current world order are absurd, and the most absurd are his statements about the so-called isolation of Russia,” she said, stressing “Russia’s determination to successively develop cooperation with Sudan on the principles of mutual and equal respect that unfortunately Washington has always forgotten,.”
The Embassy concluded its statement by saying: “As for the U.S. Ambassador, we recommend that he take all this into account while serving in his high office.
Since Feb. 24, Russia has been launching a military offensive in neighboring Ukraine, prompting capitals, led by Washington, to impose severe economic sanctions on Moscow.
