| Submit your comments on this article | |
| Africa Horn | |
| Agreement on the Russian Navy base in Sudan will be considered by the new parliament | |
| 2024-03-06 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The agreement on the construction of a Russian naval base in Sudan will be considered by the country's new parliament, which will be formed after elections this year. Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Sadiq Ali announced this on the sidelines of the Diplomatic Forum in Antalya on March 5. “We are of the position that a new parliament should emerge, which will review the agreement and develop a recommendation for the government, ” the head of the foreign policy department said in an interview with RIA Novosti. At the same time, he emphasized that it is expected that parliament will give a positive response and the agreement will be ratified. As Regnum reported, the possibility of creating a Russian military base in Sudan on the Red Sea coast was discussed with Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu in November 2017 by Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. In November 2020, Putin approved the government’s proposal to sign an agreement with Sudan to create a logistics support center for the Russian Navy. It is expected that Russian sailors will use this point to repair ships, replenish supplies and rest. At the beginning of June 2021, Sudan announced its intention to reconsider the agreement with Russia on the creation of a military base in the Red Sea.
Al Arabiya TV channel reported on April 28, 2021 that Sudan’s military leadership allegedly suspended an agreement with Russia on a naval base in Port Sudan. The Russian Embassy in Khartoum called this information unreliable. Later, the Sudanese foreign ministry denied reports of the document being frozen and noted that such information had also not been received from Russia. In July 2021, the Sudanese authorities informed the Russian side about the start of the ratification process of the relevant agreement with Moscow. In February 2023, Sudanese authorities completed the process of revising a bilateral agreement with Russia on the deployment of a Russian naval base in Sudan. The agreement must now go through the ratification procedure. However, due to the dissolution of parliament and the internal political crisis in the country, this process is still being delayed. | |
| Posted by:badanov |