After disagreements raged between representatives of the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces on the issue of integrating elements of the latter into the armed forces, it was officially announced that the signing of the final agreement, scheduled for today, Saturday, would be postponed to a later date.
Political process spokesman Khaled Omar Youssef announced that today, Saturday, there will be a meeting between the civilian and military parties and the tripartite mechanism to set a new date for the signing of a final political agreement.
He also indicated in a brief statement that the signing could not be achieved due to the lack of consensus on some outstanding issues, without specifying them.
In addition, he stressed that all parties will continue serious discussions to overcome the recent obstacles to reaching an agreement that restores the path of civil democratic transformation and under which civil power is formed to lead the transition in the country.
These quick developments came after the participants (civilian and military) of the workshop on security and military reform last Wednesday, March 29, were unable to make recommendations on issues of reform and integration of the armed forces, as discussions among officers intensified that morning. from the army and others from the Rapid Support Forces.
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As the first side saw that the ranks of the Rapid Support Forces should be re-certified by the military, while the operational support officers stipulated that military college curricula be repeated and the entry requirements changed in accordance with citizenship rights. , according to what Al-Arabiya/Al-Hadath learned at the time.
Army Commander-in-Chief Lieutenant-General Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan stated in a speech on 17 February that “the boundary between us and the political agreement is the issue of the Rapid Support merger,” meaning that he had set the merger as a condition for a final agreement.
Notably, the civil and military parties of Sudan agreed, after several months of discussion and disagreement, to sign a final political agreement on April 1, sign a draft transitional constitution on the 6th, and proceed to form a transitional authority by the 11th of the same month to get back on track. Natural democracy in the country and the transfer of control to a purely civilian authority, but recent disputes raging between the army and the SLO have postponed these dates.
