{"id":61995,"date":"2026-08-12T20:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T17:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=61995"},"modified":"2026-08-12T20:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T17:52:09","slug":"minnawi-government-has-not-rejected-the-principle-of-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/minnawi-government-has-not-rejected-the-principle-of-negotiations\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnawi: Government Has Not Rejected the Principle of Negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Darfur Regional Governor Minni Arko Minnawi said the Sudanese government and political forces supporting the state have neither closed the door to dialogue nor rejected the principle of negotiations and achieving peace, stressing that sustainable peace is the only option for ending the suffering of the Sudanese people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking during his current visit to South Sudan, Minnawi said, according to <em>Asharq<\/em>, that his moves among neighboring countries were aimed at clarifying Sudan\u2019s position amid what he described as a \u201chighly complex crisis,\u201d while rejecting what he called attempts to create the impression that the government is opposed to dialogue.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He stressed that the desired peace must be \u201cgenuine and just,\u201d address the root causes of the crisis, and preserve Sudan\u2019s unity, sovereignty, and independent decision-making. He added that peace \u201ccannot be built on surrender or on legitimizing a reality imposed by war.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Minnawi said he also discussed during the visit the conditions of Sudanese refugees and members of the Sudanese community, as well as the challenges they face, in addition to ways of coordinating a safe, voluntary, and dignified return to Sudan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He affirmed that he would continue his efforts to clarify Sudan\u2019s position to neighboring countries and the international community, warning against attempts by various parties and countries to interfere in Sudanese affairs and reshape the political landscape to serve their own agendas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Minnawi said: \u201cWe are for peace, dialogue, and a political solution, but we want peace that preserves Sudan rather than divides it, and brings Sudanese people together rather than entrenching their divisions.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darfur Regional Governor Minni Arko Minnawi said the Sudanese government and political forces supporting the state have neither closed the door to dialogue nor rejected the principle of negotiations and achieving peace, stressing that sustainable peace is the only option for ending the suffering of the Sudanese people. Speaking during his current visit to South &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61996,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61995\/revisions\/61996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}