Reasons for the exemption of the Sudanese Foreign Minister from his post---- Ina Asalkhanova

Reasons for the exemption of the Sudanese Foreign Minister from his post
Ina Asalkhanova
The views of the observers on the reasons for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir's exemption from Sudanese Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour were different on Thursday.
The main reason for Ghandour's exemption appears to be the attitude he made in a speech to parliament on Wednesday, mostly about relations with Egypt, as well as the diplomatic wage crisis.
In his speech, the Sudanese foreign minister reviewed his position on the disputed "Halaib, Shalatin and Abu Ramad" triangle with Egypt, and announced that his country had submitted 3 separate complaints against Egypt to the UN Security Council recently, including the first to protest the demarcation of the maritime border between Egypt and Saudi Arabia , Following the incorporation of the islands of Tiran and Sanafir to the borders of the Kingdom in April 2016.
The second complaint concerns Egypt's construction of two fishing ports in Shalatin and Abu Ramad, within the Halaib Triangle, in February. The third complaint came in response to the Egyptian presidential elections in the triangle "Halaib, Shalatin and Abu Ramad".
Ghandour stressed his country's rejection of any referendum or "beautification" of Halaib.
The minister called on the parliament to follow up on the salaries of diplomats after it revealed that the Sudanese diplomatic missions abroad did not receive salaries and did not pay rents for seven months, describing the situation as "tragic."
He also revealed that a number of Sudanese ambassadors abroad have asked to return, because of the circumstances that they and their families are living. Ghandour accused government officials, whom he did not name, of "believing diplomatic missions abroad were not a priority."
Ghandour called on the parliament to intervene to solve the crisis of salaries of Sudanese diplomats abroad, whose arrears reached 30 million dollars.
Sudanese media and local news outlets reported that Ghandour had resigned in January and was accepted by President Bashir and appointed Sudan's former ambassador to Juba, Murtif Siddiq, instead, before Ghandour retreated from his resignation.
The media reported that Ghandour attributed the reason for resigning to what he described as "direct intervention" in his work by leaders of the state who exercise similar tasks, referring to the attribution of al-Bashir relations with the BRICS countries, which includes China, Russia, India, Brazil and South Africa , As well as the file of relations with Turkey, to his assistant Awad al-Jazz. Official sources denied the reports and considered them merely rumors.
Mutrif Siddiq served as Khartoum's first ambassador to Juba and in April 2016 he was the Ambassador Extraordinary to Sudan and the EU Commissioner in Brussels. He also served as Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Under Secretary of State for Humanitarian Affairs.
Source: Sudan Tribune + Anatolia
Ina Asalkhanova