Port Sudan – General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan , Chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, headed this morning to New York City, United States of America, as the head of the Sudanese delegation participating in the work of the seventy-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
The Deputy Chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Mr. Malik Aqar Air, Lieutenant General Mohamed Al-Ghali Ali Youssef, Secretary-General of the Sovereignty Council, and a number of ministers bid him farewell at Port Sudan International Airport.
Al-Burhan is scheduled to deliver Sudan’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, September 22. It will also participate in high-level meetings to discuss strengthening multilateral cooperation on various international and regional issues.
On the sidelines of the 78th session, the President of the Sovereign Council will meet with a number of presidents from different countries of the world and representatives from international and regional organizations to discuss ways of bilateral cooperation and the role of multilateral cooperation within the framework of the United Nations to build a more stable future.
Over the course of a week, some 150 heads of state and government from around the world will deliver their speeches at this annual meeting, which is attracting the attention of the world.
Since late last month, Burhan has stepped up foreign tours amid efforts to end the war between his forces and the Rapid Support Forces led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.
Since then, Burhan has visited six countries: Egypt, South Sudan, Qatar, Eritrea, Turkey and finally Uganda.
Burhan left from the airport in the eastern city of Port Sudan, where he moved last month after staying at the army headquarters during the first four months of the war that broke out on April 15.
Since the fighting, which has centred on the Sudanese capital and the western Darfur region, some 7,500 people have been killed, including at least 435 children, according to official data, in a toll likely to be far lower than the actual number of casualties from the conflict.
About five million people have been forced to leave their homes and flee inside Sudan or seek refuge in neighboring countries, especially Egypt and Chad, in addition to 80 percent of the country’s health sector facilities out of service.
On Tuesday, the United Nations announced that about 1,200 children had died from measles and malnutrition in nine refugee camps in Sudan since May, and predicted that thousands more newborns would die by the end of the year.
These camps mainly house refugees from South Sudan and Ethiopia.
Al-Yurae – (SUNA)
