GCC Welcomes Sudan's Power-Sharing Deal

Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Secretary-General, Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Alzayani, praised the deal reached on Friday between the Transitional Military Council (TMC) and the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) in Sudan,  to share power until elections are held.

Alzayani described the deal as “a positive and important step” that will open the way for the brothers in Sudan to overcome the current circumstances and start a new stage of security, stability and peace.

The Secretary-General of GCC expressed his hope that the Sudanese people will overcome this critical stage to start a new era of freedom, justice and dignity and establish an economic renaissance.

On Friday, the African mediation in Sudan announced that a deal has been reached between the two sides on the formation of a sovereign council that will govern Sudan for 3 years, and will be chaired by rotation between the military and civilians.

African mediator, Mohamed El Hassan Labbat, said in a press conference, that the two parties also agreed to form a civilian government that includes independent, national and competent inpiduals whose priorities are to achieve peace and hold the killers of the demonstrators accountable.