Security Council Holds Emergency Session to Discuss UAE’s Aggression against Sudan
Sudan Events – Agencies
The UN Security Council has decided to hold an urgent session, tomorrow, Monday, in response to the request of the Permanent Mission of Sudan to the United Nations, to discuss the UAE aggression against Sudan and hold it legally and criminally responsible for the crimes it commits against the Sudanese people.
Sudan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Al-Harith Idris Al-Harith, said in a letter to the President of the Security Council, Vanessa Fraser: “Sudan stresses that the UAE’s support for the criminal Rapid Support militia (RSF) that waged war on the state and citizens makes the UAE an accomplice in all its crimes and atrocities with their consequences of an international responsibility in accordance with the provisions of international law. The UAE’s aggressive behavior represents a flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter, the Charter of the League of Arab States, and United Nations resolutions regarding the Darfur region, especially Resolution 1591 and other relevant resolutions.” Al-Harith added: “As examples but not limited to these crimes, we mention the attack on official state headquarters and infrastructure, and alliance with foreign elements to wage war against the state, taking stages and destroying civilian aircraft and attacks on hospitals and health facilities as well as storming civilian objects, places of worship, and citizens’ homes, Looting citizens’ property and stealing private cars and banks, targeting service centers, electricity, water and communications stations, attacking safe cities and looting markets with the aim of paralyzing the economy and trespassing on the headquarters of diplomatic missions and United Nations shelter centers. The arbitrary arrest of 8,000 citizens detained in detention centers and forced disappearance, rape crimes, sexual violence, crimes amounting to ethnic genocide, war crimes, and committing crimes that fall under terrorism crimes, forced displacement and liquidation of prisoners of war, and obstructing the harvest of the agricultural season in order to expose civilians to starvation.
