Ramadan Abdullah Ghoc, South Sudan’s deputy foreign minister, has urged regional and international governments and intergovernmental bodies trying to resolve the conflict in Sudan not to create more platforms, stressing that the multiplicity of arrangements fans more violence and killings.
He made the remarks at the opening of the consultative meeting between the South Sudan mediation team and Sudan’s Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) on Tuesday in Juba.
Abdullah said that the Government of South Sudan does not support multiple platforms but instead calls for unifying all international and regional efforts.
“We believe that the multiplicity of platforms creates a kind of competition between countries, and this competition contributes and may lead to prolonging the war in Sudan,” he stated. “We in South Sudan do not want to lead an initiative without the efforts of our peers as regional countries and international and regional organizations to find a solution to the Sudanese problem.”
The deputy minister revealed that South Sudan is in a privileged position to mediate the conflict because it shares a brotherly and good-neighborly relationship with Sudan.
“The word Sudan brings us together and it is very important that we (South Sudan) be part of the solution to the Sudanese problem,” Minister Abdullah reiterated.
He pointed out that South Sudan cannot be a spectator to what is happening to the Republic of Sudan and “seeks to actively help in resolving the Sudanese problem.”