The Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement today about the political and media campaign organized by many Non-Governmental Organizations to demand that the Human Rights Council adopt a resolution regarding the current crisis in Sudan.
Below is the text of the statement:-
Press Statement
Since late last August, some Western agencies have embarked on an organized political and media campaign, which has been harnessed by many Non-Governmental Organizations, to demand that the Human Rights Council adopt a resolution on the current crisis in Sudan, one of its most notable disadvantages is that it lacks objectivity and fairness because it equates the Sudanese Armed Forces with the rebel militia, and includes demands to forming what was called a fact-finding committee.
This is happening at a time when Sudan is facing a war targeting its unity, independence, security and stability, as a member state of the United Nations, launched by a militia that includes a large number of mercenaries from some countries in the region and is supported by known external agencies.
This also comes in light of the continuing atrocities of the rebel militia, including ethnic cleansing and mass massacres in Darfur, and the crimes of rape, murder, torture, displacement, and detention of thousands of civilians by the militia. In addition to widespread and systematic looting in the Capital, the evacuation of residential areas, the use of civilians as human shields, the recruitment of children, and the destruction of strategic, economic, service, cultural and educational institutions. These are serious crimes that have not yet been met with the condemnation they deserve, and some influential Western powers have sought to stop them.
The draft resolution is also presented while the Sudanese Armed Forces assume their constitutional, legal and moral responsibilities in defending the country and its people against what is similar to foreign invasion, in a manner consistent with the Charter of the United Nations.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms, in light of the above, that protecting and promoting human rights in Sudan has and will remain a major goal and an advanced national priority on the national agenda, there is no clearer evidence of this than the fact that Sudan hosts a complete office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, a specific expert on the situation of human rights in Sudan, and a unit specialized in human rights within the UNITAMS mission, in addition to the team of experts formed in accordance with Resolution 1591, which provides in its reports a monitoring of the situation of human rights and international humanitarian law. Above all, Sudan has formed a national committee headed by the Attorney General to investigate war crimes, violations and practices of the rebel Rapid Support Forces, and therefore, no external party can compromise Sudan’s keenness to protect and promote the human rights of its citizens and to cooperate with the relevant international mechanisms.
The movement, which has been led by Britain since last August and joined by some Western countries, is now facing collective rejection from all the geographical and political groups to which Sudan belongs (the Arabic Group – the Organization of Islamic Cooperation – the African Group). Despite this, Britain proceeded to present the draft resolution to the Human Rights Council. Accordingly, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms through this statement its categorical rejection of the draft resolution because it is incorrect in its description of what is happening in Sudan, because it is extremist in its prejudice against the Sudanese Armed Forces, and does not take into account the real priorities of Sudan at this stage, which are to end the rebellion first, stop the ongoing atrocities, and evacuate Citizens’ homes and civilian institutions, including hospitals and places of worship, facilitating the delivery of humanitarian aid as stipulated in the Jeddah Declaration of Humanitarian Principles signed last May 11, and cease-fire.
