The so-called 'Sudan Appeal' alliance has announced that their meetings will go ahead as planned in Paris on Tuesday even though some opposition delegates were blocked from traveling by authorities at Khartoum International Airport.

The meeting is scheduled to take place from 10 until 15 November. On Sunday, security agents stopped several opposition leaders from travelling to France and confiscated their passports telling them that they were not allowed to travel.

The opposition alliance’s spokesman Bakri Yusuf told Radio Tamazuj that the political secretary of the Sudanese Communist Party Mohamed Mukhtar Al-Khatib, member of the alliance Tarig Abdel-Majid and the chairman of the Unified National Unionist Party (UNUP) Gala al-Azhari were stopped from travelling to Paris and their passports were seized.

However, the spokesman stressed that the Paris meeting will continue as planned in spite of the prevention of opposition leaders from travelling to the venue of the meeting.

Yusuf further said delegations of the opposition group from different locations have already arrived in Paris with full mandate. Yusuf pointed out that the move by the Khartoum government shows unwillingness to make the upcoming National Dialogue preparatory meeting a success.

He noted that the meeting would discuss several issues including recent tensions within the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF).