{"id":4822,"date":"2026-05-25T01:07:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T22:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sawtoroba.com\/Eng\/?p=4822"},"modified":"2026-05-25T01:07:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T22:07:18","slug":"secretary-general-of-the-arab-socialist-baath-party-mr-ali-al-rih-al-sanhouri-at-the-opening-of-the-meeting-of-the-sudanese-principles-declaration-of-principles-in-na","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sawtoroba.com\/Eng\/?p=4822","title":{"rendered":"\u200eSecretary General of the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party \u200e \u200e, Mr. Ali Al-Rih Al-Sanhouri, at the opening of the meeting of the Sudanese Principles Declaration of Principles in Nairobi – Friday, May 22, 2026\u200e*"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u200eSecretary General of the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party \u200e \u200e, Mr. Ali Al-Rih Al-Sanhouri, at the opening of the meeting of the Sudanese Principles Declaration of Principles in Nairobi<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Friday, May 22, 2026\u200e*<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u200ePeace, mercy, and blessings of God Almighty.\u200e \u200eHonorable women and activists, a good greeting.\u200e \u200eThis is the first meeting I have personally participated in since the outbreak of the war, and I am very happy to be part of it. I salute the Center, the Organization, and all those in charge of it, men and women.\u200e \u200eMy participation today does not mean that the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party has not been a participant before, as the Ba’ath Party, as you know, men and women, has participated in many platforms, or almost all of them, and has responded to all the calls aimed at achieving political and social consensus in the face of this destructive and brutal war.\u200e \u200eOur concern has always been to achieve unity of opinion and unity of will, purely to save our country from the state of war and from fragmentation, and the attempts to fragment the national state in Sudan and in our Arab and African region.\u200e \u200eI salute the organizers of this meeting and look forward to a productive dialogue on the key issues.\u200e \u200eOur people raised slogans for freedom, peace, and justice during the December uprising, which culminated in previous uprisings. These slogans persist to this day.\u200e \u200eThe first slogan is freedom and peace. Now our country really needs peace, and it needs more than peace: it needs to preserve the unity of the Sudan. Ensuring unity is maintaining peace, and ensuring our unity is peace.\u200e \u200eOf course, no issue is more important than another, as all issues are interconnected and intertwined, but some are more urgent. The urgent issue now is to preserve the peace, unity, and security of our country.\u200e \u200eNow the Sudanese people are asking for an end to this war, from Port Sudan to Nyala. How do we achieve security and peace? People want to return to their homes, jobs, farms, and normal lives.\u200e \u200eNow the demand is not to return to a socialist or capitalist system, but rather for the basic need of the people to survive and return to normal life in a safe and stable country.\u200e \u200eSo the goals that were put forward in the December uprising are still there, but at this stage, there is something urgent. We have to unite on how to stop this war, how to achieve peace, and how to preserve the recognition of diversity and respect for equality and justice, because the issue at hand is not, in fact, just a legacy left by colonialism. Colonialism has indeed left deep mines in many Arab and African countries, and we are indeed influenced by our Arab and African surroundings, and even by the international environment. All these influential forces have their own interests and extensions, and we also have ours.\u200e \u200eBut above all, the primary responsibility is ours as political and social forces, and that of the Sudanese people, to set priorities. The priority now that must bring us all together is to stop the war.\u200e \u200eBut stopping the war is linked to an important issue: restoring power to the people. How do we stop this war? Because there is a conflict between multiple parties, military and civilian, and there is no real solution to these conflicts except by restoring power to the people.\u200e \u200eHow do we return power to the people? This is what we have been saying since before 1985: “There is no guardianship of the people, no authority for anyone other than the people.”\u200e \u200eBy abandoning all ideas of guardianship and believing that we are the only ones responsible for leading this country, and thus imposing the trajectories of the political movement in the country.\u200e \u200eWe have a responsibility, it is true, but anyone who takes on the responsibility of stopping the war and restoring stability and peace in Sudan must advance in the ranks; he must advance the ranks of the struggle to preserve the unity of our national state, not the ranks of authority.\u200e \u200eThose at the forefront of the struggle now must take two steps back from the ranks of authority to create the opportunity to unite all Sudanese forces in a direction that will restore power to the Sudanese people.\u200e \u200eThe restoration of power to the Sudanese people is not by imposing will, nor by believing that we are the ones who shape the future of these people. This will not restore power to the Sudanese people, and we will not achieve unity, because the complexity of the Sudanese crisis cannot be stopped, and unity can only be achieved with one word that unites everyone: to govern the Sudanese people.\u200e \u200eWhen we all pledge that we will return to the Sudanese people as soon as possible and in the shortest period of time, we will be able to confront, address, and resolve all the problems of war, including disarmament and other complex issues.\u200e \u200eIf we think we can assert our control because we see ourselves as innocent for having stood against the war and everyone else as wrong or guilty, that will lead to more conflict and fragmentation.\u200e \u200eWe must think more deeply about this subject and forge a new path for the Sudanese people. It’s not entirely new, but it’s a path that goes far beyond the ideas that have accumulated after 2019.\u200e \u200eAl-Sadiq al-Mahdi, may God have mercy on him, used to say a phrase he repeated often: “Al-Bafsh Gbinto is the destruction of our city.” The issue is not a matter of stupidity, but how to deal rationally with the current crisis.\u200e \u200eTherefore, we must focus on the priority: stop the war and establish peace and stability first; then, the different programs and visions will clash as they wish.\u200e \u200eDiversity is politically, intellectually, and culturally beneficial, and even beneficial at every level. But it is useful when we acknowledge it, respect it, discipline it, and see it as a source of enrichment, strength, and mutual respect; it turns into a disaster when we see it as contradictory and a cause of division.\u200e \u200eWe are now not in the midst of an ideological conflict. Ideology is behind everything, but we must define the tasks and requirements of the next stage, and know that Sudan is not the only country targeted, as all the countries of the Arab region are targeted by fragmentation and division, and occupied with internal wars to achieve the interests of regional and international powers that seek to extend their influence and control.\u200e \u200eWe need to block these schemes. It is our responsibility to be humble and devote all our efforts to the cause and not to any personal interests. Personal ambitions should therefore not be reversed into conflicts that weaken and thwart our role in this conflict.\u200e \u200eThis beautiful decade of political and social forces still lacks important national forces with a history and a role in the national movement, and we must continue the dialogue with them.\u200e \u200eWe welcome, of course, Mr. Abdulwahed Mohamed Nur and the Sudan Liberation Movement and Army. Otherwise, most of the existing armies are fighting for their own interests. We welcome him and his support for the struggles of the Sudanese people, his keenness and steadfastness in his position towards the unity of Sudan, the solution of its problems through its sons, and his keenness on the unity of Sudanese political forces.\u200e \u200eViews on the causes and roots of Sudan’s national crisis may differ. Still, we agree that the lack of balanced development is one of the main causes of what Sudan is suffering today, and that this has opened the way for regional and other factions.\u200e \u200eWe have made progress in our dialogue and agreed to establish a coordination mechanism among the national forces to deliver on our pledges.\u200e \u200eI wish you success in this meeting.\u200e \u200eAnd thank you very much \u200e\u200e .<\/strong><\/p>\n

Note, translated from Arabic by Ibrahim Ebeid. From Alhadaf<\/strong><\/p>\n

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