Quad resumes contacts for another meeting between Sudanese stakeholders
September 6, 2022 (KHARTOUM) – The Quad countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, have resumed consultations to organize a new meeting for Sudanese stakeholders after the failure of a first attempt.
On Saturday, the diplomats of the four countries convened the military component, the five groups that signed the Juba peace agreement and Forces for Freedom and Change to discuss ways to establish a civilian government.
However, the military did not come to the meeting and the armed groups, members of the National Consensus Forces (NCF), said they would not attend without their allies triggering the withdrawal of the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) from the meeting.
“The Quad mechanism has contacted all parties for a new meeting to discuss how to end the political crisis,” informed sources told Sudan Tribune on Tuesday.
They proposed that every party be represented by two people, the sources further added.
The FFC held a meeting on Tuesday evening to take a decision on the invitation of the Quad.
Prime Minister’s choice
In a related development, one of the FFC’s leading members Shihab al-Tayeb told Sudan Tribune that they intend to discuss the choice of the new prime minister once they finalized the adoption of the constitutional declaration.
He added that they will submit the constitutional text governing the transitional period within days to the political forces.
He reiterated the FFC’s demand to form a fully civilian government and described as a “manoeuvre” al-Burhan’s call for the establishment of a Supreme military body endowed with economic and foreign policy powers.
The 4th July call is “a miserable attempt to manoeuvre, and therefore the military government is working to put forward initiatives through its agents (…), and we do not believe that they have a serious will to resolve the crisis,” he stressed.
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