Al-Burhan calls all Sudanese parties to ‘one table’
Head of the Sudanese Sovereignty Council General Abdul Fattah al-Burhan has called on all parties to sit at the same table.
General al-Burhan spoke on Sunday on the occasion of the Sudanese Armed Forces National Day.
The proof said: “Our country is living through a transition experience surrounded by major challenges that can only be overcome through co-operation between the people and the army”.
He added: “The situation of our country cannot endure further fragmentation, and we assure our people that their army will remain loyal to it and take sides in its national choices”.
The Chairman of the Sudanese Sovereignty Council pledged that the armed forces would not take sides with any party other than the people.
He continued: “Our people have long awaited successful solutions to crises, and this will only happen under a government agreed upon by all without excluding anyone”.
He stressed his determination “to exert maximum efforts to enable our forces to protect the land and people of Sudan”.
He said: “We stand with those affected by the floods and rains in the country”.
Sudan has been living through a “severe” political crisis since the decisions of Army Chief General al-Burhan, dissolving the transitional government, imposing a state of emergency and freezing some articles of the constitutional document, in a step he described as a corrective to the course of the revolution
As protests against these decisions escalated, Al-Burhan canceled the state of emergency and released political prisoners in a move aimed at creating a climate of dialog under a tripartite mechanism comprising the African Union, the International Rescue Committee (IGAD) and the United Nations Mission in Khartoum (UNAMID).
However, the country entered a state of political deadlock after the negotiations, which were managed by the Tripartite Mechanism, were suspended as the army withdrew from the process in order to allow the political forces to form a civilian government in which the armed forces would not participate.
