Sudan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Mohy-Eddin Salim, asserted that Sudan will not permit any party to impose peace upon it, underscoring that the country remains the only state in Africa that has fought wars, entered negotiations, and reached binding agreements. “We are masters of war and masters of peace,” he declared.

Addressing a press conference at the Sudan News Agency platform, alongside the Minister of Culture, Information, and Tourism, Khalid Al-Eisir, Salim underscored that by the second month of the war, the government had already engaged in the Jeddah Forum and produced clear, actionable outcomes — yet the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia wilfully refused to implement them.

He stressed that no regional or international actor undertook any effort to compel the RSF to honour the Jeddah commitments. Consequently, the Sudanese people rallied decisively behind their Armed Forces and supporting units. “We enforced the forum’s outcomes through our own strength — expelling the militia from civilian facilities and the areas it had seized, without any regional or international backing, relying solely on Allah’s greater support.”

The minister made clear that the Government of Sudan will not allow the respected outcomes of the Jeddah Forum to be dismissed or discarded, emphasizing that Sudan — as a sovereign government and as Armed Forces acting under the law — is the principal and legitimate stakeholder in all matters relating to peace and security. He urged the international community to confront the presence of mercenaries fighting within the RSF’s ranks, stressing that such conduct is a criminal act under international law and a matter that falls squarely within the mandate of global institutions.

Salim reaffirmed Sudan’s firm commitment to the proposal submitted to the United Nations regarding a humanitarian ceasefire, stating: “We seek a peace that genuinely prevails — not a fragmented or defective peace that inflicts harm on our people and destabilizes the region.”