Abidjan, The Permanent Representative of Sudan to the United Nations (UN), Al-Harith Idriss Al-Harith Mohamed, has said that he does not want the UN Security Council to be involved in the conflicts in Sudan, reports the Turkish Anadolu news agency.

Al-Harith Mohamed, who spoke on Saturday, May 13, 2023, at the United Nations headquarters in New York, first noted that the Sudanese government and army are in a defensive position and not an offensive one.

He indicated that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) lost their authority among the different groups and pointed out that the looting was carried out by these groups.

Asked about the role of the UN Security Council, Al-Harith Mohamed replied that “To be honest, we don’t want the UN Security Council to be involved in the conflict in Sudan”.

‘We believe that, to silence the guns, the African Union will find African solutions to African problems,’ he added.

Al-Harith Mohamed explained that further involvement would harm the goodwill initiatives of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

‘The involvement of the UN Security Council can also have a negative impact on the initiatives of the African Union,’ he continued.

Since April 15, Sudan has been the scene of fighting between the regular army and paramilitaries in Khartoum and other towns and regions of the country. Both sides accuse each other of having started the hostilities.

In 2013, the RSF were formed to support government forces in their fight against armed rebel movements in the Darfur region (west). These paramilitary units subsequently took on other missions, including the fight against irregular migration at the borders and the maintenance of order, before being qualified as ‘rebels’ by the army following the outbreak of hostilities.

Source: Agence Ivoirienne de Presse