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Sudan Accuses UK of Obstructing UN Session to Deliberate 'Complaint Against UAE'

Permanent Representative of Sudan to the United Nations, Al-Harith Idriss (AP)
Permanent Representative of Sudan to the United Nations, Al-Harith Idriss (AP)
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Sudan Accuses UK of Obstructing UN Session to Deliberate 'Complaint Against UAE'

Permanent Representative of Sudan to the United Nations, Al-Harith Idriss (AP)
Permanent Representative of Sudan to the United Nations, Al-Harith Idriss (AP)

The Sudanese Foreign Ministry on Tuesday strongly protested Britain’s intervention at the UN Security Council, saying the UK delayed discussion on Sudan's complaint against UAE and changed the meeting format to closed consultations making participation by non-member states like Sudan no longer allowed.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs regrets that the UK disregarded its moral and political responsibility as a permanent member of the Security Council,” the Ministry said in a statement.
It added that the UK position came in pursuit of its commercial interests with the Emirates, making it complacent in the atrocities committed by the terrorist militias and its main sponsor, as well as an advocate of impunity.
On April 26, Permanent Representative of Sudan to the United Nations, Al-Harith Idriss, requested an emergency Security Council meeting on what he called UAE “aggression” against his country. The meeting was scheduled for Monday, April 29. However, the UK intervened to alter the meeting's agenda and format, transforming it to closed consultations, and preventing Idriss from attending.
During the closed consultations, UN member states demanded that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan cease hostilities around Al-Fashir, the capital of Sudan’s North Darfur, and commit to not attacking any city.
They, further, urged regional states to abide by the UNSC Resolution 1591's Darfur arms embargo.
They equally advocated for the resumption of the Jeddah talks, unhindered access to humanitarian aid, and adherence to international humanitarian law. The meeting did not discuss Sudan’s complaint against the Emirates. It only echoed the Council’s statement made on April 27.
On Tuesday, the Sudanese Foreign Ministry described the British intervention at the Security as a “disgraceful move.”
It also criticized the “leniency” exhibited by the Western permanent members of the Security Council to the militia's atrocities and its “sponsor”, the UAE.
“Sudan will use all available means and avenues to safeguard its people, sovereignty, and dignity,” the Ministry statement affirmed.
“The Security Council's credibility and ability to carry out its responsibility in maintaining international peace and security while upholding the values and ideals of the United Nations Charter is currently seriously tested,” it added.

 

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UN: Israel's War Plans Threaten 'Continued Existence' of Palestinians in Gaza

Palestinians inspect the damage at a school used as a shelter by displaced residents that was hit twice by Israeli army strikes on Tuesday, killing more than 25 people, in Bureij, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, May 7, 2025.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Palestinians inspect the damage at a school used as a shelter by displaced residents that was hit twice by Israeli army strikes on Tuesday, killing more than 25 people, in Bureij, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, May 7, 2025.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
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UN: Israel's War Plans Threaten 'Continued Existence' of Palestinians in Gaza

Palestinians inspect the damage at a school used as a shelter by displaced residents that was hit twice by Israeli army strikes on Tuesday, killing more than 25 people, in Bureij, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, May 7, 2025.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Palestinians inspect the damage at a school used as a shelter by displaced residents that was hit twice by Israeli army strikes on Tuesday, killing more than 25 people, in Bureij, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, May 7, 2025.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

The UN rights chief voiced deepened concerns Wednesday that Israel's plans to expand its offensive in Gaza aim to create conditions threatening Palestinians' "continued existence" in the territory.

Israel's military has called up tens of thousands of reservists for an expanded offensive in the Gaza Strip, which an official said would entail the "conquest" of the Palestinian territory.

"Israel's reported plans to forcibly transfer Gaza's population to a small area in the south of the Strip and threats by Israeli officials to deport Palestinians outside of Gaza further aggravate concerns that Israel's actions are aimed at inflicting on Palestinians conditions of life increasingly incompatible with their continued existence in Gaza as a group," Volker Turk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a statement.

"There is no reason to believe that doubling down on military strategies, which, for a year and eight months, have not led to a durable resolution, including the release of all hostages, will now succeed," he said.

"Instead, expanding the offensive on Gaza will almost certainly cause further mass displacement, more deaths and injuries of innocent civilians, and the destruction of Gaza's little remaining infrastructure."

Nearly all of the Palestinian territory's 2.4 million people have been displaced at least once during the war, sparked by Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack on Israel.

A more than two-month Israeli blockade on all aid into Gaza has worsened the humanitarian crisis.

According to AFP, Turk warned that stepping up the Israeli offensive "would only compound the misery and suffering inflicted by the complete blockade on the entry of basic goods for almost nine weeks now".

"Gaza's residents have already been deprived of all lifesaving necessities, particularly food, with relentless Israeli attacks on community kitchens and those trying to maintain a minimum of law and order," he said.

"Any use of starvation of the civilian population as a method of war constitutes a war crime," Turk said, adding that "the only lasting solution to this crisis lies through full compliance with international law".

The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza says at least 2,507 people had been killed since Israel resumed its campaign in mid-March, bringing the overall death toll from the war to 52,615.