The Sudanese army said on Wednesday that the resumption of negotiations with the Rapid Support Forces in the city of Jeddah on Thursday “does not mean stopping the battle for national dignity,” adding that “eliminating and defeating the rebels” is the goal of the Sudanese people, and the armed forces are committed to it to put the country on the right path. On Wednesday, the Sudanese Sovereignty Council presented a “road map to end the current war through 4 stages.”

On Thursday, negotiations will resume in the Saudi city of Jeddah between the two parties to the conflict in Sudan, the army and the Rapid Support Forces, at a time when battles are still taking place in the capital, Khartoum, and Nyala, South Darfur.

He said in a statement from the office of the official spokesman, Nabil Abdullah: “In response to a generous invitation from the two mediating countries in the Jeddah platform, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States of America, to resume the negotiating process with the rebel Rapid Support militia, we accepted the invitation to go to Jeddah to complete what was agreed upon.” Before, which is the full implementation of the Jeddah Declaration, to facilitate humanitarian work and return life to normal.

The Sudanese army expressed its hope that the Rapid Support Forces would adhere to what was previously agreed upon this time.

In turn, the Rapid Support Forces announced the arrival of its negotiating delegation to Jeddah in response to an invitation from Saudi Arabia and the United States to resume negotiations. She said in a statement: “We hope that the other party’s delegation came to Jeddah united and independent in its opinion from the dictates of the National Congress Party (the ruling party during the era of former President Omar al-Bashir), and we also hope that it has the necessary authorization to speak on behalf of the armed forces.”

During the round of negotiations that will resume on Thursday, the two mediating countries (Saudi Arabia and the United States) seek to establish a permanent ceasefire and hostilities throughout Sudan.

Last Sunday, the Deputy Commander of the Sudanese Army, Shams al-Din al-Kabashi, announced that he had received an invitation to resume negotiations, confirming that the army delegation would go to Jeddah.

The previous round of negotiations collapsed last June after the army delegation withdrew from the talks table, in protest against what it called the refusal of the “Rapid Support” forces to remove their forces from residential homes and public government institutions, which in turn accused the army of seeking to try to thwart the Jeddah platform and resort to a military solution. .

Government road map

In parallel, the Vice President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Malik Aqar, said that the government presented a road map to end the current war through 4 stages, which are the separation of forces, the humanitarian operation, and addressing the issue of war by merging the “Rapid Support Forces” and creating one army, ending with a political process. By agreeing on a constitution that determines how the country will be governed.

According to Al-Sayyadi media, the MP’s speech came when he was addressing, on Wednesday, the opening session of the conference to evaluate the “Juba Peace” agreement signed in 2020, in the city of Juba, the capital of the state of South Sudan, in the presence of the southern mediation and the parties to the agreement, the Sudanese “armed factions”, the African Union, the “IGAD” organization, and a representative. 

Source: Al-sharq Al-awsat