Meeting of the Security Council on the UNITAMS mission

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The Security Council is considering at a private meeting today the Sudans request to terminate the functions of the United Nations Integrated Transition Support Mission (UNMITS), known as "UNTAMS".

The Council is scheduled to hear a report from UNMEE on the violations that have occurred over the past period, as well as briefings from permanent members on their vision of the Missions fate.

Behind the scenes, according to information leaked from the corridors of the International Organizations headquarters in New York, there is a frantic race between supporters of the Missions survival, primarily the United States of America and the United Kingdom, and supporters of the Sudanese foreign view and led by China.

Sources expected that the Council would not take a decision on the mission, whose mandates would expire next December 6. It was likely that further consultation among Member States would be postponed, with specific proposals to be assigned to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

The Sudans delegate to the United Nations had held numerous meetings and contacts aimed at convincing Member States that the Sudan was no longer in need of UNMIS, because it had come out of its mandate and had begun to work on tasks unrelated to its decision to establish it. At the same time, former Prime Minister D. Abdallah Hamdok, Head of Coordination of National Democratic Forces, contacted members of the Security Council, demanding support for the Missions survival, arguing that the country was more in need of UNITAMS than it was in 2022, the date of its founding, and that the United Nations exit at this time from the Sudan was a renunciation of its war-ravaged people.