The Foreign Ministry Lying…Why for?

By: Adil El Baz

As I see
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I had thought that after the state had taken decisions that indicated strong positions towards the injustice to which the country was exposed as a result of the African, Arab and international position, by leaving IGAD after its conspiracy with the Janjaweed. The Ministry also took a strong position on the African Union when it proposed what was known as the expanded mechanism plan, and its most prominent position was when it refused renewal for Volcker and expelled the UN mission, as well as those positions that it recently took against the UAE’s interference in Sudanese affairs. Based on those positions, I believed that the era of subservience, dictates, and fear of the bogeyman of the so-called conspiratorial and delusional international community had passed, but unfortunately the Foreign Ministry reminds us that it is still under guardianship and that all its steps are trembling, and the most prominent evidence of this is what happened yesterday.
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The story is that this newspaper published news stating that the Sudanese government refused to grant an entry visa to the American envoy Tom Perriello because of the conditions he set, all of which affect the country’s sovereignty, as stated in yesterday’s issue.
What did the Foreign Ministry do? Did it issue a guaranteed statement denying the news of the events? The question posed to me yesterday by some friends from the Foreign Ministry is: Why did you consider the Foreign Ministry’s statement to be a denial of the news of the events and did not consider it a clarification on the part of the Foreign Ministry? I said that because the statements made by the American envoy in Kampala were more than twenty hours ago, and the Foreign Ministry was silent and did not rush to issue a statement. The latest news was that Sudan Events newspaper issued its news that contained the envoy’s requirements and the government’s rejection of them.
So what does that mean? It means that some party, high or low, trembling at America’s reaction, has instructed the State Department to issue an ambiguous statement of denial. Therefore, I said that the State Department, which issued a statement yesterday in which it denied the news of the events, revealed its lack of professional integrity.
Because it knows that the news is true, but it intended to attack the credibility of Sudan Events newspaper, which is its capital, and it said that the American envoy’s request was not submitted to the Foreign Ministry but was presented to the presidency and other agencies, which rejected the conditions that the envoy set before the government.. Therefore, the news was accurate when it indicated that it was the government that refused not the Foreign Ministry, and as the envoy said that his request was rejected by the “Government of Sudan” and he did not mention the Foreign Ministry, does the Foreign Ministry not represent all the agencies of the “Government of Sudan,” noting that the Foreign Ministry was the last to know many issues related to foreign affairs, recalling the meeting of President Burhan with Netanyahu in Entebbe.
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I pointed out that since the founding of Al-Ahdath (Sudan Events) newspaper in the year 2007, no false or fabricated news has been published without sources, and the newspaper has been known for nearly twenty years for its credibility and professional integrity, stressing that the news it published is true in all its details, and the newspaper maintains its documents and information, which it obtained from a reliable and informed source from within the government, and then I called on the Foreign Ministry to go to court, which is the only place where the newspaper can reveal its source.
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The question is why did the Foreign Ministry do what it did? The Foreign Ministry must answer the question or ask the party that ordered it to do so, and the Sudan Events has no hostility with the Foreign Ministry and agencies that fabricate news and tell stories from their imagination. The Sudan Events is the one that stood up in defense of the Foreign Ministry when the Empowerment Eradication Committee invaded it, displaced its qualified cadres, and exposed the committee’s orders so that it might be entitled to a just and fair judiciary by returning all those dismissed to their positions. Therefore, the events expected better treatment from the Foreign Ministry than to undermine the credibility of a journalist who stood with it during its ordeal, but it seems that the Foreign Ministry and its people do not mention or take this into consideration.
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All of this is trivial and may pass, but what I fear is that the Foreign Ministry and the government will return to yielding to external pressures and bow to the conditions of the outside to impose on the country policies and decisions that are insulting to the dignity of the Sudanese, who have nothing else left for them. How happy we were with the news of the rejection of the envoy’s conditions because they are insulting, and then the Foreign Ministry spoils our joy by telling us that it did not refuse because the envoy did not submit a request to it, and it knows the truth, and it knows that it is lying.. The story is over, and may God expose the shame.