A verbal argument between the representatives of Sudan and the UAE during a Security Council session

A periodic session held by the UN Security Council in New York to discuss the humanitarian situation in Sudan today, Thursday, witnessed an argument for the exchange of accusations between the representatives of Sudan and the UAE to the United Nations. This is not the first time that the Security Council sessions on Sudan have witnessed this type of exchanging accusations, but this is the first session to be held in the Security Council after Sudan submitted a request to the International Court of Justice to file a lawsuit against the UAE before the court “and allegations related to the UAE’s violations of its obligations under the agreement to prevent the crime of genocide and punish it.” According to the International Court of Justice, the Sudanese request relates to “actions committed by the Rapid Support Forces and the militias loyal to them against the Masalit Group in Sudan.”

The UAE delegate, Mohamed Abu Shehab, talked about the suffering of the Sudanese people “because of two warring parties.” He also talked about the nightmare witnessed by Sudan, violence and destruction. He added: “This destruction is clear, and it is due to the abhorrent options of the warrior generals who insist on exercising war, whatever the cost of the Sudanese people.” He referred to three recommendations that his country submitted to the United Nations, including the inclusion of sexual violence associated with the dispute as a standard standard in the United Nations penaltying system. Also accountable for violent violent crimes and providing psychological, physical and social support to victims.

He talked about the provision of his country six hundred million dollars to humanitarian aid to various programs for Sudan, stressing the need for humanitarian aid without obstacles. He referred to his country’s call, “to a truce during the month of Ramadan, the generals rejected it and international pressure should increase on the two warring generals to reach a permanent ceasefire and return to a comprehensive political process that leads to the formation of a transitional, democratic, civil and unquestionable government.”

The Sudanese army, led by Abdel -Fattah al -Burhan, and the “Rapid Support Forces” led by Muhammad Hamdan Daglo, “Hamidati”, has been fighting since April 2023 war that left more than 20 thousand dead and about 15 million displaced and refugees, according to the United Nations and the local authorities, while a search for American universities estimated the number of deaths by about 130 thousand.

On the other hand, the Sudanese delegate, Al -Harith Idris, asked to respond to what was stated in the intervention of the UAE delegate, and accused Abu Dhabi of igniting the war in Sudan “to occupy his land, achievements and wealth through its support for rapid support (…) and this was proven by the expert report of the Security Council.” The Sudanese delegate said that the UAE plays a “evil and sabotage, and if the UAE’s role in supporting the rapid support militia does not stop and support their parallel government, the suffering will continue.”

Idris, speaking to the Security Council, added: “Your council must call the UAE instead of talking about the intervention of external elements, the only external element that interferes in this war is the UAE.” He asked: “The UAE delegate should not be ashamed to say that it supports Sudan humanly (…) the day after the UAE announcement of providing 200 million dollars (in February during the Ethiopia Conference of Donors) for rapid support.”

The Emirati delegate requested the right to respond, and said, “The UAE reaffirms that it is not part of the conflict and was never part of it and did not support any party without the other. Lies remain lies, no matter how repeated.” He said that the warring parties are responsible for using weapons and starvation, violating the bodies of women, and refusing to join the negotiating table and manipulating regional peace and security.

Sudan’s delegate asked to return the word to him again, and said that “the war will stop only when the UAE stops when supporting it. We have all the documents and filed a complaint to the Security Council that includes 74 pages, and therefore the UAE is convicted of waste of the Sudanese blood and kills them with the aim of possessing Sudan and its wealth.” He added: “We would have respected her if the path of relations that love peace and friendly countries to care for their interests that existed even in the time of the Islamists who say they wanted to eradicate them in Sudan, and kill in the Sudanese people for external parties and cultivating the new Middle East project.” He talked about the existence of a “document in Congress aimed at the extent of US arms shipments to the UAE, which use an American weapon and give it to militias.”

Then the UAE delegate returned and said that “the representative of Sudan misused this forum and this is a new attempt to provide false information. If they really support peace, why do they refuse to attend any initiatives to stop the conflict. The armies are present to defend the country and their people instead of violating their peoples.” He called on the Sudanese armed forces to a ceasefire and enter into talks.