The US special envoy to Sudan, Tom Brelo, announced on Wednesday the start of the opening sessions of the Geneva negotiations on stopping the war in Sudan.
Brelo explained on platform X that the Geneva negotiations were launched with the participation of a number of international partners, including Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE, in addition to the African Union and the United Nations.
Brillo stressed the need to ensure that the parties concerned abide by the agreements signed in Jeddah, as well as the need to implement these commitments effectively.
It is noteworthy that these talks are part of international efforts aimed at achieving peace and stability in Sudan, as they are an important step towards addressing the deteriorating situation in the country.
Earlier, Mohamed Bashir Abu Nomu, head of the Sudanese government delegation to consultative meetings with the United States in the Saudi city of Jeddah, announced the failure to reach an agreement on the participation of a Sudanese government delegation in the talks scheduled to start in Geneva.
Mohamed Bashir Abu Nomou said last Sunday in a Facebook post: “I announce, in my capacity as head of the government delegation in the consultative meetings with the Americans in the Saudi city of Jeddah, the end of the consultations without agreeing on the participation of the Sudanese delegation in the Geneva negotiations, as a recommendation to the leadership, whether the delegation is a representative of the army according to their desire or a representative of the government, according to the government’s decision from now on.”
“It is ultimately up to the leadership’s decision with its estimates, and there are certainly many details that led us to this decision to end the consultative dialogue without an agreement,” Nomou concluded.
Sudanese reports have revealed that Washington adheres to the invitation it made to the commander of the Sudanese army, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, for the army’s participation in the Geneva negotiations, which will be held on August 14, August, and not through a government delegation.
Sources told Al-Sudani newspaper that “the Sudanese government is contingent on its participation in the Switzerland negotiations through a government delegation, and not through the army delegation as requested by Washington.”
She explained that “America established Switzerland negotiations based on the Jeddah platforms (1 and 2), as they are based on ceasefire talks between the two warring parties (the Sudanese Army and the Rapid Support Forces), and the necessity of implementing previous general agreements by the two parties, while Washington believes that the discussion of other issues and political discourse belongs to other platforms in which the Sudanese government participates.”
Battles between the Sudanese army forces and the Rapid Support Forces have continued since mid-April April 2023, resulting in about 13,100 deaths, while the total number of displaced people in Sudan reached about 7.9 million people, and about 2.1 million people to neighboring countries, according to United Nations data.
