AUPSC delegation to visit Sudan next October

A delegation from the African Peace and Security Council (AUPSC) is expected to arrive in Port Sudan early next October.

Foreign Minister, Ambassador Hussein Awad, said that this visit by the council delegation comes while it is under the Egyptian presidency, and this is an indication of the right direction to put Sudan’s issues on the African Union’s agenda in a positive light and to modify the negative indicator that some countries were circulating, due to its deviation from seriousness.

He added that Egypt is capable of putting these indicators in their correct context, and that Sudan will work faithfully with the delegation so that it can read the events correctly according to reality, hence put it in their natural order in the AUPSC’s documentaries.

Hussein affirmed that the most important topic to be discussed during the upcoming visit is the possibility of lifting the freeze on Sudan’s membership in the AU, adding that Sudan will present to the visiting delegation a comprehensive explanation of Sudan’s position on this immature decision taken by the African Union, and that it will be the first topic we will put on the agenda of the visit, pointing out that the AUPSC has a rotating presidency that rotates between the member states of the council group for the specified period of the council’s life, and that next month Egypt will chair the current session of the council.
The Minister continued: “The AU has a role in leading the peace process in Sudan, up and down, according to the curve of the countries involved in the AUPSC, pointing to the influence of some neighboring countries that favor political money over their external orientation, and that the influence of the AU fluctuates between up and down, explaining that the AU is stable when the state is wise in its management of this important platform and its understanding of regional issues and its position in the image that preserves the political balance of the continent and its leadership in the independence of its decision from the axes, adding that when there is a fragile state in the presidency of the union, things tend in favor of the axes that have their agenda, which they seek to pass on to the African countries, stressing that Egypt’s presidency with its political, economic and military weight of the AUPSC will contribute directly to amending matters in favor of the political decision of the continent, and the African orientation away from regional axes, and passing the African national agenda, expressing his optimism about Egypt’s presidency of this important platform, and adjusting the compass of its indicator in favor of African issues.