Khartoum- After months of tension between the Sudanese government and the head of the mission United nations To support the transition in Sudan, UNITAMS, Volker Peretz, ended UN Security Council The mission’s mission in Sudan, and transferred its tasks to the UN agencies in the country, amid division in political circles regarding the step.
Supporters of the Sudanese army and its leadership considered the move a victory for the national will and Sudanese diplomacy, while opponents of the regime of the head of the Sovereignty Council saw it as a victory for the national will and Sudanese diplomacy. Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan The continued deterioration of the situation in the country will lead to new UN intervention that allows the use of force.
The Sudanese Foreign Ministry expressed in a statement its satisfaction with the decision to end the mandate of the UN mission. Undersecretary Dafallah Al-Haj Ali pledged to work to stop the war, address its effects, and complete the course of the transition period, by reviving an expanded political process with pure national will that leads to free and transparent elections.
Last Friday, the Security Council approved the end of the mandate of the UNITAMS mission, effective today, Sunday, December 3, with a vote of 14 of its members and Russia abstaining from voting.
Alternative option
Political analyst Muhammad Latif says, “There are groups that celebrated the Security Council’s decision and considered it a victory for their battle with Volker Peretz and the Forces of Freedom and Change coalition, which they consider complicit with them.”
Latif believes that if those celebrating the end of the UN mission’s mission had thought a little, they would have noticed the seriousness of the situation, through the words of some representatives of member states about the seriousness of the situation in Sudan and its effects on civilians, which imposes more roles on the United Nations and not the other way around.
Speaking to Al Jazeera Net, Latif believes that with the Security Council confirming the seriousness of the situation and the military confrontations, the poor security conditions and humanitarian threats, the abolition of the UN civilian arm, and the continuing dangers facing Sudan, the Council will resort to another option, which is moving to Chapter Seven, “Use of Force.” To impose security in the country.
Different positions
The head of the National Movement Forces Alliance, Al-Tijjani Cisse, believes that ending the UNITAM mandate came too late after it plunged the country into a devastating war.
Sisi told Al Jazeera Net, “UNITAMS went and did not succeed in implementing any of the items contained in its mandate, and it bears full responsibility for increasing the pace of political polarization in Sudan.”
It is believed that Volker Peretz’s bias towards the Forces of Freedom and Change, which showed intransigence and closed the doors to national consensus, contributed to pushing the country towards war.
On the other hand, the leader of the Forces of Freedom and Change, Maher Abu Al-Goukh, says, “The end of the mission of the UN mission was imposed by variables, the most prominent of which is that it works in accordance with Article Six of the United Nations Charter to support the democratic transition, and with the outbreak of war, the scene became linked to threats to security and regional peace, which requires measures in accordance with Article Seven.” “It is outside the mission’s mandate.”
In an interview with Al Jazeera Net, Abu Al-Joukh believes that if the mission’s mission is extended, it will face obstacles from “the de facto government in Port Sudan“Who requested the termination of her duties.
It is believed that there are indications that the country is moving towards stopping the war and achieving peace, and both sides of the war have no choice but to respond to international and regional efforts, and the “de facto government” no longer has a card to maneuver with, and therefore it is expected to face more pressure than before.
In the same direction, the head of the opposition Beja Congress Party and spokesman for the Revolutionary Front Alliance, Osama Saeed, believes in an interview with Al Jazeera Net that ending the tasks of the UN mission opens the way for the Security Council to adopt serious and practical steps to impose peace in the event that a comprehensive political settlement is not reached, given that the continuation of the status quo The country represents a threat to international peace and security.
Constant tension
The UNITAM mission was established in January 2020 at the request of the Prime Minister of the Transitional Government at the time, Abdulla Hamdok, with the aim of assisting Sudan in the democratic transition, achieving peace and assisting development, under Chapter VI of the United Nations Charter.
The Prime Minister’s request was not agreed upon within the Transitional Authority, especially the military component of the Sovereignty Council, which had reservations about the tasks specified by Hamdok.
Other reservations also emerged, most of which came from Islamic movements that considered Hamdok’s move an attempt to place Sudan under international guardianship, amounting to treason and requiring him to be held accountable.
After the October 25, 2021 coup against Hamdok’s government and the ruling coalition, the Forces of Freedom and Change, and the war that broke out in Khartoum in mid-April, the campaign against the UN mission expanded.
Protests were held demanding her expulsion and the end of her mandate. Al-Burhan also threatened to expel the head of the German mission, Volker Peretz, who was forced to resign last September, three months after the Sudanese Foreign Ministry informed the United Nations that Peretz was an “undesirable” person.