{"id":224313,"date":"2023-06-09T11:30:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T03:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=224313"},"modified":"2023-06-09T11:30:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T03:30:32","slug":"sudan-declares-un-envoy-volker-perthes-persona-non-grata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=224313","title":{"rendered":"Sudan declares UN envoy Volker Perthes &#8216;persona non grata&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/assets\/news_photos\/2023\/06\/09\/image-129976-1686280336.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0KHARTOUM, June 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The Sudanese government has declared United Nations envoy Volker Perthes &#8220;persona non grata&#8221;, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Government of the Republic of Sudan has notified the Secretary-General of the United Nations that it has declared Mr. Volker Perthes &#8230; persona non grata as of today,&#8221; the ministry said in a statement on Thursday, just weeks after army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan accused Perthes of stoking the country&#8217;s conflict and requested his removal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perthes was in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Thursday for a series of diplomatic talks, according to the UN mission&#8217;s Twitter feed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since late last year, Perthes and the UN mission he heads in war-torn Sudan have been targeted by military and Islamist-backed protests denouncing perceived foreign interference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a letter to the UN last month, Sudan&#8217;s de facto leader Burhan blamed the envoy for exacerbating fighting between the army and the paramilitaries, accused him of not respecting &#8220;national sovereignty&#8221; and demanded he be replaced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UN chief Antonio Guterres and members of the UN Security Council have stood by Perthes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But last week, the Security Council voted to extend the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS)&#8217;s mandate for just six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Created in June 2020 to support Sudan&#8217;s democratic transition after the fall of Omar al-Bashir a year earlier, UNITAMS had previously been renewed annually for a year. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0KHARTOUM, June 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The Sudanese government has declared United Nations envoy Volker Perthes &#8220;persona non grata&#8221;, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced. &#8220;The Government of the Republic of Sudan has notified the Secretary-General of the United Nations that it has declared Mr. Volker Perthes &#8230; persona non grata as of today,&#8221; the ministry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224313"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224315,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224313\/revisions\/224315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}