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Al-Burhan meets the Secretary-General of the Arab League

Head of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces, 1st. Lt. Gen. Abdul Fattah Al-Burhan met today with the Secretary-General of the Arab League, Ahmed Abul Gheit, accompanied by a high-level delegation from the League, in the presence of Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Ali Youssef, and the Ambassador of Sudan to the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Sudan Delegate to the Arab League, Lieutenant General Imad Al-Din Adawi.

The Secretary-General of the Arab League said in a press statement that the meeting with the Head of the Sovereignty Council was very positive, in which the position of the Arab League was clarified in support of Sudan and its people.
He added, “We are all hopeful for achieving an immediate cessation of fighting in Sudan, its reconstruction and building, and the return of the displaced and refugees to their areas.”

He indicated that he listened to the humanitarian dimensions of the problem, which he described as an extremely difficult problem.
The discussion revolved around how the Arab League can help and contribute, in coordination with the international community and the African Union, to the return of peace and stability to Sudan. Abul Gheit said that the activity carried out by the Arab League, the United Nations, the African Union and some influential parties aims at controling the situation and help Sudan get out of this crisis.

He added that his visit to Sudan will open eyes to the size of the problem and the need for more effort and action to achieve an immediate cessation, return peace and stability, and provide the opportunity for the Sudanese people to secure their lives and restore stability to their country.

For his part, the Sudanese Ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt, Lieutenant General Imad Al-Din Adawi, said that the Arab League has always stood by Sudan, supporting its just causes and supporting its existing national institutions, indicating that the League’s position towards Sudan represents a security fence that emphasizes the need not to interfere in Sudan’s internal affairs, pointing to the League’s honorable positions towards Sudan.
He indicated that it has organized a number of workshops during the past period to rebuild the industrial and agricultural sectors.

Adawi expressed his thanks and appreciation to the Secretary-General of the Arab League for his visit to Sudan at this important time, pointing to other meetings he held with the member of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Assistant Commander-in-Chief, Lieutenant General Engineer Ibrahim Jaber, and with the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Culture and Information, which focused in general on the violations that the RSF terrorist militia against civilians and targeting state institutions and infrastructure, noting the support that these militias find from some neighboring and regional countries, stressing that the targeting that Sudan is exposed to constitutes a threat to the security of Sudan and the regional neighborhood in the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa.