2023-09-14 04:21:46
With our correspondent in New York, Carrie Nooten
Volker Perthes resigned in full Security Council session. The UN special envoy for Sudan announced that he was leaving his post on Wednesday September 13, while briefing ambassadors on the latest developments in the conflict between the two Sudanese military leaders.
« I thank the Secretary General for this opportunity and for the trust he has placed in me, but I have asked him to relieve me of this function “, he declared before the Security Council, without giving reasons for his departure.
Volker Perthes delivered a damning report to the Council, pitting the two sides in the conflict, the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), against each other. “ What started as a conflict between two military formations could turn into a full-blown civil war “, he affirmed, emphasizing that “ the fighting shows no signs of easing and neither side appears close to a decisive military victory ».
Blackmail
The Sudanese government had already declared Volker Perthes persona non grata last June, which shocked the head of the UN, Antonio Guterres, who had sent him to Sudan two and a half years ago to support the democratic transition.
This week, the Sudanese government went even further and downright blackmailed people, as American Ambassador Linda Thomas Greenfield publicly said in the Security Council. “ I understand once again that the Sudanese government has warned that it will request the departure of the United Nations Mission in Sudan if the special representative participates in this meetingshe said. These threats are unacceptable. The United States strongly supports the work of the special representative. No country should be allowed to threaten the ability of this Council to discharge its peace and security responsibilities. »
In his latest report, Volker Perthes denounces the indiscriminate aerial bombardments of the Sudanese army, sexual violence and looting committed by soldiers. The UN envoy reminds the belligerents that they will have to answer for the crimes committed, while more than 5,000 people have been killed since mid-April and the fighting has displaced five new million people. The head of Minuats preferred to ensure the future of the mission for the moment.
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