The representative of the African Union in Khartoum, Mohamed Belaish, announced that he will not proceed to attend the meetings of the tripartite mechanism to facilitate the Sudanese dialogue, describing the course of negotiations as evasion and exclusion, as he put it.
"Based on the directives of the African leadership, there is no need to attend any meetings to disguise and evade," Belaiche said in a press conference on Tuesday evening.
"The African Union cannot continue on a path that is not followed by transparency, honesty and non-exclusion, as well as respect for all actors and their equal treatment," he added.
Belaich later explained in an interview with Al Jazeera that the African Union did not withdraw from the tripartite mechanism, but rather suspended its participation in the meetings due to the lack of transparency and the exclusion of Sudanese political forces, as he put it.
The tripartite mechanism, consisting of the United Nations, the African Union and the IGAD Organization for Development in East and Central Africa, launched on the eighth of this June, a dialogue between the political parties in Sudan to put an end to the crisis in this country since the overthrow of the army leader, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, the civilian government In October of last year.
Representatives of the military component in one of the dialogue sessions in Khartoum (Anatolia)
For his part, the governor of the Darfur region, Minni Arko Minawi, said in an interview broadcast on Sudan TV on Tuesday that the tripartite mechanism for resolving the Sudanese crisis does not exist now in reality and has lost its status, as he put it.
Minawi believed that the United Nations envoy to Sudan, Volker Peretz, has partially turned the direct dialogue between the Sudanese parties outside the tripartite mechanism's table.
On the other hand, Abdul Jalil Al-Basha, a member of the Executive Office of the Alliance of Freedom and Change Forces-Central Council, said that the meeting that was held recently between the coalition and the military component in the authority at the invitation of the Saudi and American ambassadors, witnessed differences in visions and reservations by the military on the vision of the forces of freedom and change to end what he described as the coup. .
Al-Basha called - during a press conference - for the Sudanese to participate widely in the demonstrations planned for June 30th.
Since October 25, 2021, Sudan has witnessed popular protests calling for the return of civilian rule, and rejecting the exceptional measures of the army chief.