Egypt’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Ehab Mostafa Awad Mostafa, said Sudan is bearing the consequences of a “manufactured crisis”, warning the international community against standing idly by in the face of the Sudanese people’s suffering.
Speaking at a UN Security Council session on Friday on developments in Sudan, the Egyptian envoy said rescuing Sudan from its current ordeal is a collective responsibility and a “political, moral and humanitarian duty” incumbent upon the international community as a whole.
Ambassador Ehab Mostafa Awad expressed Egypt’s support for the UN Security Council’s press statement on the situation in the Sudanese city of El Obeid, stressing that starving civilians, obstructing humanitarian aid deliveries and targeting civilian infrastructure constitute grave violations of international humanitarian law.
The Egyptian envoy also denounced systematic attempts aimed at undermining Sudan’s institutions and imposing a new reality that threatens the country’s unity and territorial integrity.
Ambassador Ehab Awadstressed the international community must confront any attempts aimed at fragmenting Sudan’s social fabric or imposing parallel institutions that falsely claim legitimacy.
Maintaining Sudan’s unity and preserving its national institutions must remain a fundamental priority in any international move to address the crisis, he added.
