Profit and loss accounts to terminate UNITAMS Sudans mandate
Report: Maryam Abbasher
The United Nations Security Council terminated the United Nations Transition Support Mission in the Sudan (UNITAMS) by resolution 2715K, effective December 3. The resolution was adopted by 14 votes from the Member States of the United Nations Security Council, while Russia abstained.
The decision to terminate the Missions mandate was based on an earlier request by the Government of the de facto Sudan. The British delegate to the Security Council, the country that introduced the resolution, said: "She did not want to terminate Unitams, but the Sudanese authorities demand prompted us to make this choice."
The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Sudan, Dafallah Hajj Ali, said during his participation in the session that the Sudans leadership was working to halt the war in the country and address its consequences and complete the transition period by reviving an expanded political process with exclusive national will. s Personal Envoy, Ramtan Lamamra.
The UNITAMS mission to the Sudan initially came at the request of the Revolutionary Government to support the democratic transition by providing technical assistance. Analysts considered that her termination was a significant loss to the Sudan and that the decision to terminate represented a trap for the Sudan. They noted that the resolution terminated the Missions work, but distributed its functions to other United Nations organizations, while others criticized the work of the Mission, viewed it as deviating from the mandate given to it and intervening in favour of one side but not the other beyond its functions, making it vulnerable to criticism and sometimes even threats.
The Ambassador and writer, Jamal Mohamed Ibrahim, viewed the decision to terminate the mandate of the United Nations mission as a defeat for the Secretary-General of the United Nations and said that some members of the Security Council preferred to deal with fragile and weak totalitarian or military regimes that could be controlled.
Former Ambassador and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ibrahim Taha Ayoub, believes that UNITAMS has failed in its functions as set out in the United Nations Security Council statement, which was constituted in accordance with the request of the then Prime Minister, Abdalla Hamdok; This is because the junta and the leaders of the defunct regime were originally unwilling to form or come to the country, and that the junta began to place obstacles on the Head of Mission, and therefore the Mission could only fail.
The Security Council, which had decided to establish the United Nations Mission, had now decided to liquidate it without regard for the countrys circumstances, without considering the reasons that had limited the performance of its functions, and had described it as devoid of wisdom and logic. The Security Council was running its hands out of the killing and destruction of the Sudanese people.
Ayoub referred to what he described as the contradiction in Guterres talk, when he said that "we have to call things their name", and between the catastrophic draft resolution. This means to the Sudanese people that no one in the world cares about what happens to them.
The former Foreign Spokesman, Ambassador Sadiq Alqali, said that the Missions mission was a technical basis for supporting the democratic transition, but it had been disrupted by the military coup d état and transformed to seek to resolve the political crisis and bridge the rift between the parties. Describing the resolution as the mission with trap and poison in honey, he said: For the first time, a resolution condemning the parties to the conflict in humanitarian violations by the United Nations Security Council on an equal footing, as well as the Councils support for the principle of negotiation at the Jeddah Forum. The fraction of the response was considered automatic because the mission came at the Governments request and ended with a request by the Government. He noted the presence of a Personal Envoy for Guterres, who would submit periodic rather than substantive reports, and regarded the termination of the Missions work as a loss for the Sudan, as one of its tasks was to facilitate humanitarian aid and provide technical assistance for the democratic civilian transition.
