Britain and the United States called for a “immediate cessation” of violence in Sudan on Monday, where clashes between the army and paramilitaries had killed nearly 100 people.
“There is a shared deep concern about the fighting… the threat that poses to civilians, that it poses to the Sudanese nation and potentially poses even to the region,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement alongside his British counterpart James Cleverly.
He stated that the fighting has been discussed with friends in the Middle East and Africa, and that there is a “very strongly shared view about the need for generals… to ensure the protection of civilians, non-combatants, and people from third countries.”
On the margins of the G7 foreign ministers’ conference in the Japanese town of Karuizawa, he said that there was unanimity “on the need for an immediate ceasefire and a return to talks.”
“The immediate future lies in the hands of the generals who are engaged in this fight,” Cleverly added.
“We call upon them to put peace first, to bring an end to the fighting, to get back to negotiations. That’s what the people of Sudan want, that’s what the people of Sudan deserve.”
