The head of the Sudanese Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, warned on Sunday the new envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Sudan, Ramtane Lamamra, of the “fate” of the former head of the mission, Volker Peretz.
Al-Burhan said, while addressing a military crowd in the city of Wad Madani, the capital of Gezira State: “We welcome the new representative of the Secretary-General, but we have a message for him, you have to know that you are coming to be of help to all Sudanese and not to a specific group , if you stand in one row against others, your fate will be the fate of those who preceded you.”
Al-Burhan considered that “the world responded to Sudan’s desire to end the presence of the United Nations Mission “UNTAMS” in the country, after it tried to align with one group of Sudanese against the other,” but stressed that it “wants a mission that works impartially and helps achieve security and stability.”
On November 17, UN Secretary-General António Guterres appointed veteran Algerian diplomat Ramtane Lamamra to be his personal envoy to Sudan, after his representative, head of UNITAMS, Volker Perthes, resigned from his post as a result of the army’s rejection of him.
Last Friday, the UN Security Council terminated the mission of the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) at the request of the Sudanese foreign minister, who is assigned by the authority of the army, amid the rejection of political and civilian forces.
The UN mission entered Sudan at the request of the transitional government led by resigned Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok on February 27, 2020, to help the country achieve peace and support the democratic transition, after the fall of the regime of ousted President Omar al-Bashir.
However, the transition period stalled on October 25, 2021.
Since mid-April, Sudan has been experiencing a power struggle between the army led by Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as “Hemedti”, which has left thousands dead and a major humanitarian crisis, according to the United Nations.
