Opposition Rejects Moves Towards Settlement With Sudan Leaders
The tripartite mechanism - the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission (UNITAMS), the African Union and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) - met with the Chairman of Sudan's Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant-General Abdelfattah El Burhan, after he announced that the political scene will witness a "breakthrough" in the coming days.
According to the tripartite mechanism, the meeting with El Burhan was to discuss "the rapid developments in the Sudanese political arena and the prospects of a solution to the current political crisis."
The National Consensus Forces (NCF), an alliance of progressive political parties, said that the settlement project that is now underway between the two parties, aims to save the coup from an imminent fall, rather than what the tripartite mechanism promised regarding a satisfactory settlement for all parties involved in negotiations.
The official spokesman for the tripartite mechanism, Ambassador Mohamed Belish, said in a press statement that the meeting was "frank," and characterised by a "sincere will to rush a political settlement that would be engineered by the Sudanese on the basis of the broadest possible consensus. Sudan desperately needs a breakthrough, and dialogue is inevitable if we want to secure the desired democratic transition and build a new Sudan," he added.
But in Sudan, there is plenty of sceptisism around the military's announced "withdrawal". The National Accord Forces (NAF), and the Sudan People's Call initiative, signed a political declaration on Saturday, which proposed a Supreme Council of the Armed Forces including involving coup leaders in the formation of a new cabinet.
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According to the tripartite mechanism, the meeting with El Burhan was to discuss "the rapid
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