The Supreme Council of Beja tribes and Independent local administrations, led by Mohamed Lamin Turk, renewed its demand to resolve the issue of the East, according to the outcomes of the Sinkat Conference, by allocating a negotiating platform that does not exclude anyone.
In a statement, the Council warned of the intention of the political forces signatories to the framework agreement to hold workshops on the issue of Eastern Sudan in the region in isolation from the real stakeholders.
“In the event of intransigence and strong insistence on the framework agreement, holding these workshops ignoring all the calls of the people of the east, we will be forced to close the region,” he said..
The Council stressed that it did not pass what it described as insistence on overcoming the demands of the people of the region to impose a new trusteeship represented in the framework agreement, adding that this is a waste of the relative stability that prevails in the region.
In a statement, the Secretary-General of the Supreme Council for Beja Tribes and Independent localities, Taha Faki Sheikh Taha, confirmed the direction of his localities to close the region if the forces of the framework agreement insist on holding workshops on the issue of eastern Sudan in the region in isolation from real stakeholders.
Taha explained that insisting on overcoming the demands of the people of the region (people of interest) by imposing a new trusteeship represented in the framework agreement is a waste of the relative stability that prevails in the region.
He pointed out the need for allocating a negotiating platform that does not exclude anyone and that the adoptation of central ideas that has been exacerbating the crisis of eastern Sudan.
