An emergency session of the UN Security Council on Sudan today

The UN Security Council will hold an emergency closed-door meeting on Sudan on Tuesday afternoon, at the request of six Western countries, diplomats told AFP.

This session is being held at the request of the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway, the United States, Estonia and France, according to the same sources.

The United Nations envoy to Sudan, German Volker Perthes, said earlier, during a video conference from Khartoum, to journalists in New York, that he expected the new situation in Sudan to be reviewed, on Tuesday, in the Security Council.

He hoped that the fifteen members of the Council would once again show their unity.

Diplomats said that members of the Security Council intend to ask their partners to adopt a joint declaration, without going so far as to condemn the events, contrary to what United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres did, provided that this declaration only expresses the Security Council's concern.

A diplomat told AFP that the goal was to win the support of all council members, but that Russia and China would agree it was not certain.

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