After meeting Al-Burhan and Netanyahu ... Hamdduk requested an international mission that would cause controversy in Sudan

Ahmed Fadl-Khartoum

Once again, the Sudanese found themselves facing a state of tension and attraction after the Entebbe meeting between the President of the Sovereign Council, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but this time in the hands of Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdock, who called on the United Nations to allocate a mission under Chapter VI to support peace in the country.

As happened in the normalization endeavors with Israel, Hamdduk’s request divided the Sudanese into two camps, between a supporter in order to avoid a setback in the transitional period and refuse for fear of violating national sovereignty.

According to a letter to Hamdock he sent to the Secretary-General of the United Nations at the end of last month, "Sudan requests the United Nations to seek a mandate from the Security Council to establish a peace support operation under Chapter VI as soon as possible, in the form of a special political mission that includes a strong peacebuilding component The mandate of the prospective mission should cover the entire territory of Sudan. "

In his speech today, Monday to the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, the Prime Minister tried to review the challenges facing his country, the most beautiful of which are peace entitlements, the economic crisis and Sudan's presence in the list of state sponsors of terrorism.

"No country"
The intensity of the division was evident on the social media platforms, which activists contested on its pages, and some went on to describe the matter as "dangerous."

Abdullah Deedan, a member of the Sudanese Group for Democracy first and former adviser to Hamdock, does not find any risk in the Prime Minister's request, stressing that describing the step as "dangerous" needs to be reviewed, because the requested mission is of a civilian rather than military nature.

Worms say to Al-Jazeera Net that the transitional period is difficult to describe as not fragile, and it inherits from the defunct regime a collapsed state in all aspects similar to the "no state" state.

He explains that the UN mission requested by the Prime Minister is a technical political mission to provide technical assistance to Sudan in relation to peacebuilding operations.

He adds that issues such as security arrangements related to the reintegration, demobilization and absorption of the forces of up to eight major armed movements, need capabilities that exceed the capabilities of Sudan, which is currently suffering from an economic crisis and the collapse of the state apparatus.

Worms also refer to the issues of the displaced and refugees, as there are 2.5 million internally displaced persons in conflict areas and over 1.7 million refugees from nearby neighborhood countries (Chad, South Sudan and Ethiopia).

New colonization
The former diplomat of the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Al-Rasheed Abu Shama, expresses his concerns that Hamdok's request will constitute an entry point for what he calls "the new colonialism".

Abu Shama explains that the old colonial armies have ended, but there is a new colonialism through international organizations that can include intelligence elements entering any country with advanced and uncontrollable devices.

The diplomat says to Al Jazeera Net that, despite his confidence in Hamdock and his experience in international relations, "caution remains a duty", and in theory this is a new colonialism and raises more questions than providing answers.

He asked, "Has the prime minister reached a degree of despondency from the existing national cadres so that he can turn to the United Nations? Where did Sudan position regionally and internationally, and who won its independence sixty years ago?"

He refers to their experience after the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2005, when international experts were used to oversee the reintegration and demobilization process, and similar action could have been sufficient instead of placing the whole country under the sixth item.

Risk of interference
Al-Rasheed Abu Shama proposes - if the United Nations accepts - scrutinizing the recommendations of the international mission and approving it by the legislature once it is formed, or by the joint chamber of the Councils of Sovereignty and the ministers, to set conditions that obligate the proposed mission not to align - as always happens - for armed movements or groups that It claims marginalization.

He warns that it is necessary to know the authorities that authorized Hamdok to take this step by referring to the constitutional document.

But Abdullah Deedan - who previously worked as a consultant in the Hamdok office - says that the decision-making mechanism is carried out in consultation between the Sovereign Council and the ministers.

And he stresses that all of Sudan needs technical and political support, because the state inherited from the "rescue" regime that has ruled the country for thirty years is a "collapsed state."

He continues, "The request for technical and political assistance in accordance with the sixth item is linked to conditions determined by Sudan itself in accordance with international conventions, even UNAMID's mission in Darfur was conditional even though it came under the mandate of the UN Security Council."

Between two items
Worms give assurances that it is impossible to roll the resolution from Article VI to Chapter Seven that authorizes the United Nations military intervention, saying that "this rolling over does not pardon the mind."

But expert on international relations, Yasser Al-Obaid, told Al-Jazeera Net that the sixth item could be an entry point for imposing the seventh item, which remained a threat to all developing countries.

Al-Obaid considered the decision surprising because Sudan does not suffer from clear security disturbances, which is a stable country in the region and is moving well towards civil and democratic governance, and the spirit of peace overshadows peace negotiations.

He warns that the experience of international organizations in several countries is not promising, and it would have been sufficient to use the United Nations agencies regarding the displaced and refugees.

Controversial dialectic
Sanaa Hamad, a former minister in the government of ousted President Omar al-Bashir, wrote an article in which she asked whether the prime minister consulted with the defense and interior ministers and concluded that the army and police collapsed and needed to reshape, train, and oversee internationally.

And considered the Prime Minister's request to the United Nations to help in spreading the prestige of the state a striking irony, "How on the one hand you give up your sovereignty and responsibilities in whole or in part, and on the other hand ask them to help you in spreading the prestige of the state?"

The leader of the dissolved National Congress Party, Amin Hassan Omar, wrote, "There have always been European and American theorists calling for the suspension of the sovereignty of some countries and the establishment of international control over them, and the state of the south was the last country right-wing politicians demanded to put it under direct international control, but its government refused with pride and firmness in the project." .

"As for our government to ask, this is what no one thought of. I hope to God sincerely that this news will be one of my nightmares in this fateful night."