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Cairo, August 11 (Xinhua) -- Khartoum: The Sudanese government said on the 11th that the consultations between Sudan and the United States in the Saudi Arabian port city of Jeddah on the ceasefire dialogue to be held in Switzerland on August 14 ended in failure.

A delegation led by Sudanese Minister of Mines Abu Nam went to Jeddah for consultations with the US delegation on the 9th. Abu Nam returned to the eastern Sudanese city of Port Sudan on the 11th and posted on social media that the consultations had ended and the two sides failed to reach an agreement on whether the Sudanese government delegation or the Sudanese armed forces delegation should participate in the Swiss ceasefire talks.

Abu Nam said that the consultations ended in failure due to various reasons, and the Sudanese leadership will make a final decision on the issues after evaluation.

According to media reports, the US delegation headed by Tom Perillo, the US special envoy for Sudan, proposed during the consultations that the Sudanese armed forces should send a senior officer to lead a delegation to the Swiss ceasefire talks, while the Sudanese government insisted on sending a government delegation rather than an armed forces delegation.

On July 23, the United States invited the conflicting parties in Sudan to hold a ceasefire dialogue in Switzerland starting from August 14, and said that the dialogue would be co-hosted by the United States and Saudi Arabia, with the African Union, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and the United Nations as observers. On July 30, the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement saying that the Sudanese government called for a meeting with the US government to prepare for the ceasefire dialogue in Switzerland.

On April 15, 2023, an armed conflict broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Sudan Rapid Support Forces in the capital Khartoum, and the fighting subsequently spread to other areas. The ongoing conflict has caused the deaths of about 18,800 Sudanese and displaced more than 10.17 million people. Under the mediation of Saudi Arabia and other countries, the conflicting parties held negotiations in Jeddah since May last year and reached short-term ceasefire agreements several times, but none of them were effectively implemented. In December last year, Saudi Arabia and other mediators announced that the negotiations between the two sides in Jeddah would be suspended indefinitely. (End)