Coup d'état in Sudan: unanimous resolution adopted by the UN Security Council

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The United Nations Security Council adopted a unanimous resolution on Sudan this Thursday, October 28, 2021 in New York.

After several days of discussions, Russia and China agreed to sign an amended text, defining a common position.

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While a large popular mobilization is preparing for Saturday in Khartoum and in several other cities of Sudan, in order to demand the return of civilians to power, international diplomacy has come into action this time, facing the army chief Abdel. Fattah al-Burhan, who seems more and more isolated and whose room for maneuver was further reduced this Thursday because of this resolution at the UN Security Council.

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After the suspension of international financial aid, after the condemnation in severe terms by the African Union, the United Nations Security Council demanded, in a laboriously debated but ultimately unanimous declaration, the reestablishment of a " 

government of transition led by civilians

 ”, expressing“ 

deep concern at the takeover of military power

 ”. He also denounced the arrests and the dissolution of the country's transitional institutions. And to ask for " 

a dialogue without preconditions

 " to resolve the crisis opened by the coup d'état on Monday.

Already, the day before, the Western embassies had said to continue to recognize Abdallah Hamdok and his cabinet as " 

the constitutional leaders of the transitional government

 ".

And they even visited him on Wednesday, a few hours after demanding him from the putschists, while the head of the local UN mission, the German Volker Perthes, had repeatedly shuttled between him and General al -Burhan.

All eyes are now on the street, and the popular mobilization on Saturday.

The UN Security Council resolution sets out a minimum international requirement, which the Sudanese general can hardly ignore.

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  • Sudan

  • UN

  • Abdel Fattah al-Burhan

  • Abdallah Hamdok