Government: Security Council sanctions have strengthened the activity of transnational armed movements

Sudan’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Al-Harith Idris, said that the Security Council sanctions imposed on Sudan under Resolution 1591 have strengthened the activity of armed movements across borders.
The Sudanese diplomat spoke,
Al-Harith said before the UN Security Council yesterday, commenting on the report of a team of experts formed by the Council to assist the committee to monitor the implementation of the measures imposed in its resolution 1591 of 2005. He said that the sanctions have become “counterproductive in terms of undermining the extension of security in Darfur and favoring the activity of armed movements across borders.” .
He pointed out that the decision was formulated without specifying a deadline for the end of the sanctions, and it remained a sword hanging over Sudan, without its results being subject to any objective evaluation.
He stated that the sanctions resolution has become a tool in the hands of some member states of the UN Security Council to exert political pressure on Sudan and influence its national sovereign decision.
Al-Harith said that the sanctions were imposed in a different security and political context, when there was a conflict in the now stable Darfur region in which the displaced began to return to their villages voluntarily, while the government was working to protect civilians.