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| US accuses Sudan of banning UN representative from speaking at Security Council |
| 2023-08-10 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The Sudanese authorities allegedly threatened to curtail the United Nations mission in this African country if Volker Perthes, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Sudan, speaks at a meeting of the Security Council . This was stated to journalists by the US permanent representative to the world organization Linda Thomas-Greenfield. She called this fact "outrageous." The diplomat noted that no country should have the opportunity to cancel speeches of speakers, especially at the UN. The meeting was held on August 9th. Perthes did not participate in it. The UN said they knew nothing about such ultimatums from Sudan. In turn, Sudan's Permanent Representative to the UN Al-Harith Idriss Al-Harith Mohamed said that his country is in favor of Perthes leaving the post of special representative because of the diplomat's statements. Earlier, he publicly stated that the Sudanese government has lost the trust of partners in the region and can no longer maintain the unity of the country. As reported by IA Regnum , on May 26, the spokesman for the United Nations Secretary-General, Stephane Dujarric , said that the heads of the sovereign council of Sudan, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, called on UN head António Guterres to remove Volker Pertes from the post of special representative of the secretary general. Dujarric noted that this request shocked Guterres. On July 26, Britain blocked the speech of the Russian speaker at a meeting of the UN Security Council on the situation around Ukraine. The event was supposed to hear the former bishop of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) Gideon . His speech touched upon the topic of persecution of the UOC in Ukraine, and the meeting was convened by Russia. |
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