Riyadh (EFE) Saudi Arabia, an agreement in principle to allow the flow of aid and protect civilians.
According to a joint statement from Saudi Arabia and the United States, mediators of the dialogue, reproduced today by the official Saudi news agency, SPA, this expected truce “to facilitate humanitarian activities” will contemplate “security measures that will include a surveillance mechanism for the ceasefire supported by the United States, Saudi Arabia and the international community.
The “Jeddah Declaration”, announced after indirect negotiations between the Army and the paramilitaries, does not include an announcement of a new truce after the end, on Thursday, of the seven-day pause sponsored by South Sudan and that, like the previous ones, has not been respected by either of the two sides.
More than 600 civilians killed in the conflict
According to the statement, the dialogue that began last Saturday in Saudi Arabia will address, in a future phase, “the proposed arrangements for subsequent talks, with Sudanese civilians and regional and international partners, on a permanent cessation of hostilities.”
The note also underlines the “hope” of the mediators -Saudi Arabia and the US, with the help of the United Nations-, “that Sudanese civilians and regional and international partners participate in the next rounds” of the talks.
The Saudi Foreign Minister, Faisal bin Farhan, affirmed today on his official Twitter account that what was agreed in Jeddah “is a first step”, after describing as “unprecedented” the crisis that Sudan has been going through since the outbreak of fighting on the 15th of April.
“The talks and the declaration of commitment to the protection of civilians is a first step, and others will follow (…) the most important thing is that the agreement is fulfilled and the Kingdom will work until security and stability return to Sudan and his brother people,” bin Farhan said.
According to the UN, the fighting has caused the death of more than 600 civilians and the wounding of more than 5,000 others, in addition to the internal displacement of 700,000 Sudanese and the flight of more than 120,000 others from the country.
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