Washington: Sudan’s Ambassador to the United States, Mohamed Abdullah Idris, denied reports that the U.S. House of Representatives had adopted any draft resolution obligating the U.S. government to use its influence to restrict Sudan’s participation in the United Nations or other multilateral organizations.
According to Sudan News Agency, this clarification came in response to claims circulating on social media about the submission of such a draft resolution. The Ambassador explained that Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) had proposed an amendment to bill H.R. 5300, which outlines the general parameters of U.S. foreign policy. The amendment sought to obligate the U.S. government to work on restricting Sudan’s international participation, but it was rejected in a vote within the House Foreign Affairs Committee along with several other proposed amendments.
Ambassador Idris stressed that the draft bill H.R. 5300 contains no reference to Sudan. He further underlined that the rules of multilateral diplomacy are based on respect for peoples’ will and state sovereignty, not on the unilateral considerations of a single country. He added that the declared U.S. position remains respect for Sudan’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, and the will of its people.
The Ambassador renewed Sudan’s call for the United States and the international community to classify the rebel Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia as a terrorist organization and to pressure it to lift the siege on the population of El-Fashir and halt the genocide crimes committed against the Sudanese people, most recently the massacre at Al-Daraja neighborhood mosque in El-Fashir, which claimed the lives of more than seventy-five worshippers.