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voice Security Council The International Cooperation Council agreed on Friday to end the mission of the United Nations Political Mission in Sudan tomorrow, Sunday, at the request of the Acting Sudanese Foreign Minister last November.
14 of the 15 Council members voted in favor of the resolution drafted by Britain, while Russia abstained from voting.
The decision ends the mandate of the United Nations mission known as UNITAMS on December 3.
A three-month transition period will begin on Monday to allow the departure of mission personnel and the transfer of its missions to other United Nations agencies “where appropriate and to the extent possible.”
UNITAMS was established by the Security Council in June 2020 to provide support to Sudan during its political transition to democratic rule.
The mission employs 245 people, including 88 in Port Sudan (east), as well as others in Nairobi and Addis Ababa, according to what a United Nations spokesman confirmed. Stephane Dujarric Last November.
Rationale for the decision
Reacting to the decision, James Kariuki, the British deputy delegate to the United Nations, said: “The United Kingdom would not have chosen to end UNITAMS at this moment.”
The United States representative, Robert Wood, also considered that “reducing the international presence in Sudan will only encourage the perpetrators of atrocities with disastrous consequences for civilians.”
The Security Council expressed its “dismay at the continuing violence and humanitarian situation” in Sudan, and called on all parties to “immediately cease hostilities and facilitate the arrival of humanitarian aid.”
For his part, he was considered the director of an organization Human Rights WatchLouis Charbonneau, said that the Security Council’s resolution “is the culmination of its catastrophic abdication of its responsibility towards Sudanese civilians at a time when the risk of atrocities and widespread human rights violations has become greater than ever before.”
But Dafallah Al-Hajj, the envoy of the President of the Sovereignty Council of Sudan Abdel Fattah Al-BurhanTo the Council, he affirmed “the government’s readiness to continue constructive dealings with the United Nations by strengthening cooperation with the team that provides humanitarian and development aid.”
