Sudan Freezes Dealing with IGAD on Current Crisis

Port Sudan – Sudan Events

The Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that the government has officially decided to freeze dealings with the IGAD organization regarding the current crisis dossier.
The Ministry’s spokesman said in a press statement today (Tuesday), that the Acting Foreign Minister informed the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Republic of Djibouti, Chairman of the IGAD Ministerial Council, based on the Republic of Djibouti’s capacity as Chairman of the current IGAD session, via a written letter, of the decision of the Government of the Republic of Sudan to stop engagement and freeze dealing with the organization regarding the current crisis in Sudan .
The Foreign Ministry attributed the decision to violations committed by the organization by including the situation in Sudan on the agenda of the forty-second extraordinary summit of IGAD heads of state and government scheduled to be held in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, on Thursday, January 18, without consulting Sudan, and inviting the militia leader to attend in the venue of the emergency summit in Kampala.
The Foreign Ministry described this as a dangerous precedent in the history of IGAD and regional and international organizations, which Sudan considered a violation of its sovereignty, as well as a serious violation of IGAD charters and the rules governing the work of international and regional organizations.