Position constancy is doubled by variables!! – Strategies – ✍️ Dr. Issam Batran
In the history of US foreign policy, there has never been a repetition of the US Secretary of State's phone calls with heads of state and government. In less than two weeks, the Chairman of the Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, said: received three phone calls from the US Secretary of State (Blinken), which were announced by the official media of both the US and Sudanese governments…
What is perhaps striking is the consistency of the Sudanese government's announced position on the Geneva negotiations requested by the United States of America. The stability of the Sudanese position has been apparent since the Sudanese government's first press statement regarding the Jeddah consultative meeting. The statement does not directly confirm that the government would not participate in the Geneva Forum, but rather on two points:
1. The Sudanese government is determined to implement the Jeddah Declaration.
2. His rejection of the presence of any new monitor and facilitator.
The Sudanese government has left the door ajar, indicating that it would return to Geneva in the event of changes, postponements or concessions from the American mediator, according to the justifications given by the government following the consultations in Jeddah…
– Yesterday, the technical meetings of the American mediation partners ended and they announced a statement by the American envoy (Tom Borello), the most important of which was the recognition of the importance of the participation of the Sudanese government in Geneva, whose participation was prevented by the stability of the announced position, looking closely at the nature and size of the variables…
This morning, the Chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, received a telephone conversation from the US Secretary of State (Blinken) and it was related to the Geneva talks. , with the same firmness of positions, the Chairman of the Sovereignty Council explained that (Sudan's firm position) is represented by:
1. Commitment to implement the Jeddah Declaration Agreement according to the vision that was presented to the parties of the Jeddah Platform…
2. There is no objection to sitting down with the facilitators of the Jeddah platform to discuss with them how to implement…
3. Confirmation of the refusal to expand the list of animators…
– Being firm in one's positions is not as difficult as a strategic thinker might imagine, because there is a slight difference between firmness in a position and firmness in principle. The position can change if the other side of political reality becomes clear, or to protect oneself. lesser harm for fear of greater harm, and the position does not change without justifications and alternatives. Because the American mediator does not stop at the level of mediation from the point of view that he is active and creates the (imposed) results of negotiation in various areas. ways…
