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CAIRO - 20 August 2020: Former Sudanese Foreign Ministry spokesperson, who was relieved of his duties after stating that Khartoum would sign a peace treaty with Israel, said he made his remark because the ministry is "completely absent from this file."
The former spokesperson, Haidar Badawy Sadek, said in a Thursday statement that he had told the ministry about his statement on a peace treaty on the same day he made it on Tuesday. A few days later, he realized that "our sovereign ministry is compeletely absent from the file of relations with Israel, and this is one of the most important files at the moment in our path towards infitah [open door policy] with the rest of the world as equals."
"That this file is not with the Foreign Ministry is unacceptable at all. In fact, it belittles our civil state and the sovereignty of the Foreign Ministry," Sadek added, referring to the widescale 2018-2019 protests by the Sudanese people in which they demanded a civil state.
Sadek emphasized that no Sudanese official has denied his remarks, although he acknowledged he was not instructed to make them, but he told reporters about a possible peace deal nevertheless to change the status quo.
On Tuesday, when Sadek made his comments and later Foreign Minister Omar Gamaledinne said the issue was not discussed by the ministry and that Sadek's statement created "confusion," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tel Aviv and Khartoum "will be able together to build a better future for all peoples of the region."
"We will do whatever is necessary to turn vision into reality," AFP reported Netanyahu as saying.
Netanyahu met with General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, chief of Sudan's transitional sovereign council, in February in Uganda. After the meeting, statements were made from both sides about normalization, but the possibility resurfaced after the UAE's declaration of an imminent peace treaty with Israel last week.
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