The Transitional Military Council (TMC) on Monday welcomed Eritrea’s delegation to Sudan with president Isaias Afwerki sending his support to the people and the army, reported Africa News.
‘‘Chairman of TMC, Lt. Gen. Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan, for his part, commended Eritrea’s constructive role that stems from good-neighborly perspectives & Sudan’s readiness to restore warm ties with Eritrea,’‘ Eritrea’s information minister, Yemane Meskel, posted on Twitter.
The delegation that included Eritrea’s foreign minister, Osman Saleh met with the leaders of the TMC and the head of the political committee and expressed their support for the prevailing transitional arrangement.
Meanwhile, on Monday, Sudan’s military said it has received two proposals from Ethiopia and the African Union, which they want to merge into one proposal.
“We have received two separate proposals to study from Ethiopia and another one from the African Union, AU,” said Shams El Din Kabbashi, spokesman for Sudan’s military junta. “What we have agreed with both the AU and Ethiopia is one combined proposal to be presented to us, and to narrow gaps between points of view.”
Sudan’s military rulers have refused to agree to the Ethiopian proposal for a power-sharing agreement with the country’s pro-democracy movement. The proposal suggested for the formation of a 15-member governing body that would install a civilian administration, comprising of eight civilians and seven members of the military.
“That is unacceptable because it violates the sovereignty of Sudan,” the Transitional Military Council (TMC) spokesman Kabashi said. “Sudan is not accepting any external intervention that is trying to impose any kind of solutions without our opinions and consultations.”
Details of the AU proposal have not yet been made public.
The talks between the military council and the protest and opposition leaders came to a halt after the June 3 bloody dispersal of a long-running protest camp outside the army headquarters in Khartoum. Around 128 people have been killed since the crackdown, according to doctors linked to the protest movement.
