“Sudan has bled,” said Kamil El-Tayeb Idris, Transitional Prime Minister of Sudan.  “Our villages and cities have fallen silent under the shadow of unprecedented war, unprecedented invasion,” he said.  Yet, amid the ashes of war, there is a “unique pulse that refuses to die” in the refugee’s quiet prayer, in the farmer who plants crops he may never reap, in the mother who sings her child to sleep beneath an open sky.  Nonetheless, he warned of “enormous dangers” to multilateralism as the norms of international law are eroded and crimes of genocide and the deployment of foreign mercenaries to occupy States and slaughter their people are unfolding in his country. 

Over the past three years, Sudan’s people have been subjected to “existential dangers” due to crimes committed by the Rapid Support Forces militia, he said, adding that they have been forced out of their homes and homelands with a view to plunder the country’s wealth and enact demographic change.  He called for ensuring strong national institutions, for flows of lethal weaponry to the militias to be stopped and for them to be classified as a terror group.  “Violations of Council resolution 1591 (2005) prolongs the war and the suffering of civilians and decreases the chances of peace,” he stressed.

Achieving peace requires the participation of Sudanese political forces and Sudanese society, he went on, underscoring that there must be “no foreign interference or pressure, no hasty partial solutions or support for ethnic extremism plotting to destroy Sudan”.  In this context, he affirmed his Government’s support for the road map drawn up by national forces and civil organizations, and presented to the UN and mediators, which includes a ceasefire, the withdrawal of the Rapid Support Forces from occupied areas and the immediate lifting of the siege on El Fasher.  He called for the implementation of Council resolution 2736 (2024). “Imagine:  it was adopted by the Council a year ago, and nothing has happened to this day,” he said.  “Is this plausible?”

He went on to outline steps his Government is taking in the transition to democracy, including forming a civilian Government of technocrats and initiating Sudanese-Sudanese national dialogue to lay the groundwork for free and fair elections.  The Government will “remove the remnants of war” and return to the capital, Khartoum.  He spotlighted a national plan to protect civilians, presented to the Security Council and Secretary-General, which includes a national mechanism of protection and measures to facilitate humanitarian access.  However, he deplored the “the international silence on the militia’s crimes”, which is tantamount to encouragement to continue with them.  He therefore called on the international community to support the civilian Government, adding:  “Without peace, there is no viable future. We will never give up.”