The U.S. State Department’s Deputy Spokesperson, Tommy Pigott, announced that Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to discuss a range of shared concerns, including Russia’s war in Ukraine and developments in Syria and Gaza. Both sides, he said, underscored their “shared focus on securing a humanitarian ceasefire in Sudan.”
The meeting followed a series of bilateral and multilateral engagements centered on Sudan, aimed at building momentum ahead of a United Nations Security Council session chaired by the United Kingdom. The session emphasized the urgency of ending the war and achieving a humanitarian truce to facilitate aid delivery.
The U.S. Departments of State and Treasury also issued a joint statement following sanctions imposed on three RSF leaders, reiterating the need to end the war in Sudan. The statement stressed that a humanitarian ceasefire should precede efforts to ensure the delivery of food assistance to affected civilians.
