Asmaa Al-Hussaini (Khartoum)
Volker Peretz, head of the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS), announced yesterday that the mission will continue to support efforts to reach an acceptable formula for restoring a civilian-led democratic transition in Sudan, while the civilian forces in Sudan are facing strong differences over the agreement on naming a prime minister.
Peretz said through his Twitter account that he had held a fruitful meeting with Malik Agar, a member of the Sudanese Sovereign Council and head of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, to discuss the developments of his initiative with members of the diplomatic corps in Khartoum, including the ambassadors of the European Union and the United Kingdom and the charge d’affaires of the US Embassy.
During the meeting, Aqar reviewed the developments in the course of his initiative, through the meetings he presented with forces, political parties, armed movements and the military component, and explained that he is waiting for comments from various parties to develop the initiative to reach a national agreement, and he called on the UN mission and the international community to play their role in a unified and effective manner to provide technical support. And the legal in the legal drafting and approximation of the apartment between the different parties.
Agar had put forward his initiative, last month, in order to end the political crisis in Sudan in three phases, and said that the first phase of the initiative includes the agreement between the military component, the forces of freedom and change and the peace movements that signed the Juba Peace Agreement, to define precisely the powers and tasks between the various state entities, At its head is the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which was proposed by the head of the Sovereign Council, Lieutenant-General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan.
The second phase of the Aqar initiative includes the formation of an independent national government to be agreed upon, and the selection of a prime minister who represents the forces of the revolution, who chooses his government from independent competencies, while the political parties focus on the task of preparing for the elections, while the third phase includes the establishment of a comprehensive national dialogue.
On the other hand, strong differences emerged between the civil forces in Sudan over the agreement on naming the prime minister, as Wagdy Salih, spokesman for the Central Council of the Forces of Freedom and Change, announced that the coalition leader and former Sovereign Council member Muhammad al-Faki Suleiman’s talk regarding naming them prime minister within two weeks is It is premature, and that the forces of freedom and change will not act alone, but rather in concert with the forces of the revolution. Fayez al-Sheikh al-Silik, a Sudanese writer and political analyst, told Al-Ittihad that appointing a prime minister requires first entering into a transparent dialogue with all the forces of the revolution, to arrange the holding of a founding conference that adopts a constitutional declaration and a political charter, and then the formation of a legislative authority that will be the transitional authority that chooses Prime Minister.
