
Today, an emergency meeting was held for the civil forces that signed the framework agreement to discuss the latest political developments in the country. The meeting focused on the escalating activity of the elements of the dissolved National Congress and their relentless endeavor to stir up strife by driving a wedge between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, and beating the drums of war in the hope that they will return to rule over people once again after the people rejected them and turned the page on their defunct regime. After extensive discussion, the meeting concluded the following:
1- The conferees issued a call to all spectra of the Sudanese people aspiring for change by confronting the plans of the defunct regime and calls for war and military escalation, and to reject the transformation of the conflict in the country into an armed conflict that ignores the civil-political nature of the national cause. The crisis in our country resulted from tyrannical projects that our people confronted peacefully and chose a civil democratic transition as an alternative, and to deal with the remnants of the rule of the former regime through political solutions and a civil democratic transition, not through guns and warfare.
2- The meeting focused on the related efforts of the civil forces that signed the framework agreement to contain the current crisis, which was manifested in related meetings throughout the past week that the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support forces gathered together and individually with the aim of reducing tension and taking practical measures to accelerate the pace of the political process, and these efforts will continue until it works to end all forms of confrontation and restore the path of civil democratic transition.
3- The civil forces that signed the framework agreement decided to meet urgently with the leadership of the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces. They put forward practical ideas to overcome the current tension and restore the political track, in a way that will expedite overcoming the current harbinger of confrontation, and reach a final agreement whereby a civilian government will be formed that expresses the revolution and its directions, and addresses the urgent issues facing our people economically, politically and security.
4- The meeting stressed that the challenges facing the security and military sectors are old issues that were exacerbated by the previous regime, and were faced by the overthrown transitional government, and the political framework agreement that was made by civilians and the military leadership came as a courageous step to lay the correct foundations for addressing them with peace, not war. The ongoing political process provides a historic opportunity for our country to reach a single professional and national army, and the elements of the defunct regime that want to destroy the political process put forward war as an alternative to it because their goal is not reform but power at any cost, even if that means destroying the country.
5- The meeting thanked the international and regional community for its efforts related to assisting the Sudanese people in achieving their goals by restoring the democratic civil path, and saluted the great work carried out by the tripartite and quadruple mechanisms and the European Union, the meeting also stressed the need for the international and regional role to be limited to facilitating and supporting the political process, and to reject all forms of direct interference from any regional or international party seeking to fuel the conflict or to be a party to it.
Finally, we assure all the sons and daughters of our people that this crisis will inevitably end with the will of this people and its determination to achieve its goals, and we trust in the wisdom of the patriotic military and civil parties. And its ability to overcome this dangerous juncture and put the country on the path of civil democratic transformation and complete the tasks of the glorious December revolution.
Civilian forces signatories to the framework agreement
April 13, 2023 AD




