Speaking before a United Nations Security Council briefing on Sudan, Russia’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Anna Evstigneeva, blamed outside actors for the crisis in Sudan.
“We must state that the current Sudanese crisis was largely caused by an external interference in Sudanese sovereign affairs, attempts at forced political engineering in the country and imposing democratic recipes on it,” she said. “At the same time, we saw that many external actors tried to enforce the transfer of authority to civil powers artificially, and imposed a number of decisions that were not supported among the broader population. Some states widely promoted the political framework of 5 December 2022, but it failed to become an inclusive platform for various Sudanese forces.”
Evstigneeva added that, “this format left behind some of Sudan’s political heavyweights. Such an approach could hardly help to promote a comprehensive settlement.”
