{"id":20026482,"date":"2023-01-20T18:47:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T17:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/?p=20026482"},"modified":"2023-01-26T18:47:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T17:47:45","slug":"more-parties-reject-egyptian-dialogue-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/more-parties-reject-egyptian-dialogue-initiative","title":{"rendered":"More parties reject Egyptian dialogue initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

KHARTOUM \u2013 January 20, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The mainstream Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC-Central Council) definitely refuses to participate in the Sudanese-Sudanese dialogue workshop which Egypt intends to organise in Cairo in February.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FFC-CC alliance said in a statement yesterday that it received an invitation from the Egyptian government to participate in the workshop that will be held from February 1 to February 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They said that they consider the workshop as \u201ca platform for the forces of the counter-revolution that are associated with the defunct regime [of Omar Al Bashir] and want to undermine the Sudanese popular efforts to restore the path to a civilian-led democracy\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The political parties and civilian groups that signed the Framework Agreement<\/a> with the military junta on December 5 last year, previously said they reject the Egyptian initiativ<\/a>e for an inter-Sudanese dialogue platform to be held in Cairo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe dialogue process was agreed upon in advance and cannot be changed at the last moment,\u201d an FFC spokesperson said earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sudanese Ba\u2019ath Party<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yahya El Hussein, head of the Sudanese Ba\u2019ath Party, a split-off of the Socialist Arab Ba’ath Party, also rejected the Egyptian initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe do not have any details about the initiative, and we have not been invited so far,\u201d he told Radio Dabanga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for the ongoing political process, El Hussein said that \u201cthe agenda of the five conferences contradicts the programme previously prepared by the FFC-CC that included the agreed charter for restructuring the Sudanese state, the Declaration of Freedom and Change, and the Democratic Alternative document\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He accused the AU-IGAD-UN Trilateral Mechanism and Sudan Quartet (USA, UK, UAE, and Saudi Arabia) of \u201cdesigning the conferences and preparing the recommendations in advance according to the plan drawn up for the Final Agreement in order to implement specific goals,\u201d rather than involving other revolutionary parties that reject the Framework and Final Agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The politician called for \u201ca return to the founding platform for the forces of the revolution\u201d and said that his party is preparing to organise a \u201cgeneral constitutional conference\u201d to work on a new permanent constitution which will lead to general elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Socialist Arab Ba\u2019ath Party recently left<\/a> the Forces for Freedom and Change altogether due to the fact that the majority of coalition parties signed the Framework Agreement, which the party believes \u201clegitimises the October 2021 coup\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JEM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jibril Ibrahim, head of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and Minister of Finance, renewed his rejection of the Framework Agreement in terms of methodology and content. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ibrahim said that the Framework Agreement neglects the issues of the displaced in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also affirmed his movement\u2019s \u201crejection of external pressures and the imposition of foreign agendas to reach an agreement\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this week, Volker Perthes<\/a>,, the head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS), expressed his optimism<\/a> about the joining of the JEM and the Sudan Liberation Movement-Minni Minawi, as it is in their interest to participate in a new government.<\/p>\n