Sudanese coalition calls on tripartite mechanism to combine political initiatives
August 16, 2022 (KHARTOUM) -The National Consensus called on the three facilitators of the UN, African Union and IGAD to combine all the initiatives ahead of a dialogue meeting to end the ongoing political crisis caused by the military coup.
The tripartite panel held a meeting on Tuesday with the National Consensus group along with its political allies including political forces, former armed groups, Native Administration, religious communities, and civil society organizations.
“We and our allies proposed to the Trilateral Mechanism to combine the initiatives on the Sudanese arena and call for an intra-Sudanese dialogue to achieve the awaited political consensus,” said Mohamed Zakria National Consensus Spokesman, in a statement extended to Sudan Tribune.
He added that the Trilateral Mechanism inquired about the vision and efforts of the coalition to settle the crisis, pointing out they met with other initiatives’ representatives before concluding these consultations this week.
Zakria stated that they briefed the three international envoys on their efforts to reach a comprehensive national consensus in order to restore the democratic transition and they drafted four documents some of which have been approved while others are under development.
The political declaration for democratic civil government, propositions to review the Constitutional Declaration, tasks of the transitional government and standards and mechanism of selecting the Prime Minister, are the four documents endorsed by National Consensus and its allies.
Last week, the National Consensus declined to take part in the People of Sudan Initiative, which is brokered by a Sufi religious leader but involved figures from the banned National Congress Party.
The Trilateral Mechanism including the UNITAMS, African Union and IGAD, organized a series of meetings with the Sudanese stakeholders but failed to bring them to meet together.
The Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) rejected the inclusion of some political groups that were not part of the revolution in the political process facilitated by the panel. While the African Union envoy in the mechanism justified their position saying all the political components should be part of this process.
After angry statements of the African Union representative to protest their exclusion from the U.S. Saudi Arabia brokered meetings between the FFC and the coup leaders, the activities of the panel had been paused, as other political developments occurred in the country.
(ST)