Success in Removing Amb. Siddiq

Khartoum: Abu Mazen

Apparently, the Rapid Support Forces were not satisfied with the successive victories they achieved over the ousted regime’s holdouts forces and their brigades on the battlefield over the past six months, as the Rapid Support negotiating delegation led by General Omar Hamdan took a stab at the Army negotiating delegation, throwing a stone at their counterpart, by removing Ambassador Omar Siddiq from the Army delegation, stripping him of his ambassadorial title and assigning him a mere expert position.

The Rapid Support negotiating delegation was able, with its acumen, to remove “Al-Kizani Ambassador” from the official Army delegation in the Jeddah negotiations, strip him of his ambassadorial title, and assign him an expert position.
The Rapid Support Forces delegation insisted on revoking Omar Siddiq’s membership in the Army delegation for being a known member of the National Congress Party as well as a government employee.

Faced with such insistence from RSF delegation, the Army delegation was forced to remove Omar Siddiq, and the facilitators approved Maj. Gen. Mahjoub Bushra as head of the Army delegation, Maj. Gen. Faqiri Abu Daqan as chief negotiator, in addition to Brig. Gen. Moataz and Lt. Col. Talal as members of the delegation, while Omar Siddiq was assigned an expert position and stripped of the ambassadorial title.

The Rapid Support Forces delegation was headed by Staff Brig. Gen. Omar Hamdan, Fares Al-Nour as chief negotiator, in addition to Mohammed Mukhtar Al-Nour and Al-Quni Hamdan as members, while Mr. Nizar Sayed Ahmed, along with Izz El-Deen Al-Safi, were approved as strategic experts on the Rapid Support Forces’ side.

Relief here, anxiety there:

The removal of Amb. Omar Al-Siddiq from the negotiating table was met with satisfaction amidst the revolutionary forces’ Resistance Committees, and in return, the leaders and cadres of the National Congress Party expressed great resentment and dissatisfaction with the decision.

A member of the Khartoum east Resistance Committee, who preferred to withhold his name, stated that the decision to remove the ambassador was the right decision and would contribute to reaching an agreement on all outstanding issues that constituted a stumbling block in the negotiation process. He explained that the decision constituted a severe shock to the cadres and leaders of the National Congress Party.

The Resistance Committee member delineated his utterances with the witnessed repercussions of the expulsion decision and the heavy dust it raised on social media amongst the cadres and leaders of the ousted regime, describing the decision as the right step made by the RSF negotiating delegation.

A step in the right direction:

For his part, professor and political analyst Abdullah Riziq described the decision of Al-Siddiq’s removal from the negotiating table as an expected decision in terms of the fact that the ambassador is a government employee and that the negotiations should be limited to the leaders of the Army and RSF.
He added that removing everyone with a political affiliation from the negotiations would be the correct step to make in the right direction, and the removal of the cadres and leaders of the former ousted regime from the negotiating table will constitute a force of forward momentum.
Riziq accused the National Congress Party’s cadres of fueling the conflict according to significant evidence and realistic findings.

Flash back:

It is noteworthy that Omar Siddiq was relieved of his duties at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by the Empowerment Removal Committee (ERC) due to his affiliation with the former ousted regime, and Al-Burhan returned him to service following the 25th of October coup 2021, and appointed him Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is a personal friend and brother in the Islamic Organization.