How can we put an end to the initiatives for peace in Sudan which are multiplying, jostling and neutralizing each other? Friday September 22, in New York, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, all the countries affected by this civil war met with one objective, that of better coordination.
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With one of our special correspondents in New York, Christophe Boisbouvier
There were a lot of people yesterday at the New York meeting devoted to the civil war in Sudan. First, all the neighbors of this battered country – Egypt, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Chad – then the African Union and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) which brings together seven countries is- African countries: Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan and Uganda). The only thing missing was the Central African Republic.
Then, there were also all the mediating countries, that is to say the United States, Great Britain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and finally, the two countries initiating this meeting, France and Germany.
Too much mediation kills peace
So why this initiative by Catherine Colonna, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France, and her German counterpart, Green Minister Annalena Baerbock? Because too much mediation kills peace. The more mediation there is, the more the belligerents – in this case General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and General Hemetti – use it to pretend to want peace and to continue the war.
On Friday, therefore, the participants in this meeting promised to better coordinate their initiatives and to meet very soon on the same format, a format which will undoubtedly last.
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