PNN – News sources reported a fierce clash between the Sudanese representative Al-Harith Idris and the UAE representative at a Security Council meeting.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, citing Al Khaleej Online, Last night’s meeting of the United Nations Security Council to examine the situation and developments in the city of Al-Fasher, Sudan, and the wave of killings in the city, witnessed a war of words and a heated diplomatic confrontation between Mohammed Abu Shihab, the UAE’s representative to the UN, and Al-Harith Idris, Khartoum’s representative to the council, and the two sides directly accused each other of being responsible for the continuation of the war in Sudan and supporting the conflicting parties.
The Sudanese representative explicitly accused Abu Dhabi of playing a sinister and destructive role in providing weapons and financial support to the Rapid Support Forces, and called for an end to this country’s interference. In turn, the UAE representative categorically rejected these accusations, calling both parties involved in Sudan devoid of political and moral legitimacy and calling them the main cause of the current humanitarian disaster.
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The source added: The verbal clash began when the UAE representative made unprecedented criticisms of the warring parties in Sudan, saying: The Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces have deprived themselves of any role in the country’s future by engaging in a devastating war that has claimed thousands of lives.
Abu Shihab said: The UAE has been working with its regional and international partners since the beginning of the war to support humanitarian and political efforts to stop the bloodshed, and it is shameful that the UAE, as a country that has opened its hospitals, warehouses, and airports to receive the wounded and displaced, is accused of being a party to this conflict.
This was while Sudanese representative Al-Harith Idris sharply interrupted the UAE representative and said: This is not true, you are the ones who fuel the war with weapons and money, and you are the ones who send drones to bomb civilians in Darfur.
He added: I presented dozens of documents to this Security Council that prove the UAE’s involvement in providing weapons and military support to the Rapid Support Forces and financial support for foreign mercenaries in Sudan.
Tensions escalated when Idris told Abu Shihab: Your place is not in the Security Council, but among the militias you support. The rapid support forces steal Sudan’s gold and send it to the Emirates, where the merchant of war in Sudan is today.
The UAE representative responded by saying: These claims are dangerous and false. It is unfortunate that some are exploiting the UN to justify domestic failure and link domestic problems to external ones.
Both representatives walked out of the meeting angrily, leading to one of the most tense Security Council meetings ever.