President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi called for an immediate ceasefire between the conflicting parties in Sudan, in his opening speech at the Sudan’s Neighboring States Summit, held in Cairo on Thursday 13/7/2023.
The one-day summit is to discuss also ways to end the negative repercussions of the Sudanese crisis on neighboring countries, with the participation of the leaders of Egypt, Libya, Chad, Central Africa, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and Eritrea.
“This summit is held at a defining moment in the history of Sudan, where this dear neighboring country is passing through a profound crisis that poses negative repercussions on the security and stability of the world, the region, and Sudan’s neighboring countries,” said President Sisi in his speech, adding that Sudan's neighboring countries should unify their vision to contribute to resolving the crisis.
The President noted that the ongoing conflict led to several impediments for the agricultural season, causing acute food shortages.
Sisi said “The conflict and its negative repercussions also led to the deterioration of health institutions and shortages in medicines and healthcare supplies, which resulted in catastrophic repercussions on the humanitarian situation as a whole.”
The president further stressed that Sudan’s neighboring countries exerted tremendous efforts to be able to receive hundreds of thousands of displaced people, and share their limited resources with them despite the severe global economic situation.
In this regard, President Sisi called on all parties in the international community to keep the pledges they declared at the Sudan Pledging Conference, which was held in support of Sudan in June 2023, by supporting Sudan’s neighboring countries that were hardest hit by the negative repercussions of the crisis, to strengthen their resilience and alleviate the suffering of those fleeing the conflict to neighboring countries.
President Sisi confirmed that Egypt has received hundreds of thousands of the displaced Sudanese people, joining the 5 million Sudanese people that had already been living on Egyptian soil for several years, adding that the Egyptian government provided emergency relief, including food, sustenance, and medical supplies to the Sudanese brothers and sisters, who were affected by the conflict inside Sudanese territories.
Source: State Information Service Egypt