African countries participating in a consultative summit in Cairo at the invitation of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi have agreed to give the Sudanese authorities represented by the military council three months to agree with the Sudanese parties on a peaceful transition to power.
The Egyptian president succeeded in convincing the African Union Commission, during the consultative summit meeting of the regional partners of Sudan, yesterday in Cairo to extend the handover of power to a transitional government in Sudan from 15 days to three months.
Spokesman for the Egyptian presidency, Ambassador Bassam Radi, said that the Sisi president played a big role and succeeded in extending the handover of power to a transitional government in Sudan to three months. The presidents who attended the summit meeting found that 15 days were insufficient, On a three-month deadline to form a government and the emergence of civilian profiles of the transitional period.
The Spokesman pointed out that Sisi presented the Egyptian experience which is similar to the situation in Sudan and the bias of the armed forces of the people. He stressed that everyone is seeking to preserve the Sudan and its stability. , Which attended the consultative meeting on the Sudan, held a series of coordination meetings and follow-up developments in the situation.
He pointed out that the Egyptian president succeeded in getting the meeting positive results for the benefit of the Sudanese people in order to preserve its unity, capabilities and stability as well as the smooth transition of the transitional period. Commenting on the current situation in Sudan, al-Sisi said that "the solution will be made by the Sudanese themselves, through a comprehensive dialogue between the various political forces, leading to a consensus political solution, and provides a clear vision of the benefits of this stage, leading to free and fair elections, Sisi stressed Egypt's support for the Sudanese people's choices.
"We, as neighboring countries of Sudan and the IGAD countries and regional partners, look forward to providing assistance and support to the Sudanese people, in order to achieve the stability and prosperity they seek and deserve."
He called on the international community to "ease the impact of the economic crisis, which is a real obstacle to achieving the desired ambitions, and undermine the chances of achieving stability."
"We directed the foreign ministers of the participating countries to hold a follow-up meeting within a month to consider developments in Sudan and to report to heads of state and government," Sissi said.
A joint statement issued by the Consultative Summit of the Regional Partners of Sudan called on the Peace and Security Council of the African Union to "extend the timetable given to the Sudanese authority for three months" for a "peaceful transition" to the government.
"In the light of the briefing by the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Fakih, on his recent visit to Sudan, the participating countries recognized the need to give more time to the Sudanese authorities and the Sudanese parties to implement those procedures (handover of power).
"There is an urgent need for the Sudanese authorities and the political and Sudanese forces to work together in good faith to address the current situation in Sudan and to restore the constitutional order through a democratic political dialogue to achieve the hopes and aspirations of the Sudanese people to establish a comprehensive democratic political system, .
The African Union threatened to suspend the membership of Sudan if the transitional military council does not hand over power to civilians within 15 days. The Egyptian president met with South African presidents Cyril Ramavosa and Somalia's Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed before the two emergency summits hosted by Egypt on the situation in Sudan and Libya began, according to the Egyptian presidency. In addition to the Presidents of Somalia and South Africa, Idriss Deby, Djiboutian President Ismael Omar Gilah, Rwandan Paul Kagame, Congolese Denis Sassou Nguesso, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, the Deputy Prime Minister of Ethiopia, the Adviser to the President of Southern Sudan for Security Affairs, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Uganda, Foreign Minister of Kenya and Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of Nigeria.