STORY: UN envoy expresses optimism about achieving peace in Sudan
SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 14, 2024
DATELINE: Jan. 15, 2024
LENGTH: 00:01:19
LOCATION: Khartoum
CATEGORY: POLITICS

SHOTLIST:
1. various of Chairman of Sudan's Transitional Sovereign Council and General Commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, receiving the UN Secretary-General's Envoy to Sudan Ramtane Lamamra (courtesy of Sudan's Transitional Sovereign Council's official website)
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): RAMTANE LAMAMRA, UN Secretary-General's Envoy to Sudan
3. various of the meeting between Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan and Ramtane Lamamra (courtesy of Sudan's Transitional Sovereign Council's official website)
4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): RAMTANE LAMAMRA, UN Secretary-General's Envoy to Sudan
5. various of the meeting between Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan and Ramtane Lamamra (courtesy of Sudan's Transitional Sovereign Council's official website)

STORYLINE:

UN Secretary-General's Envoy to Sudan Ramtane Lamamra on Sunday expressed optimism about the possibility of achieving peace and stability and ending the conflict in Sudan.

Lamamra made the remarks while meeting with Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, the chairman of Sudan's Transitional Sovereign Council and general commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), in Port Sudan, the sovereign council said in a statement.

SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): RAMTANE LAMAMRA, UN Secretary-General's Envoy to Sudan
"My mission as UN Secretary-General's Personal Envoy for Sudan officially begins on Sudan's territory. I worked on programming this meeting with His Excellency President Al-Burhan, as well as consultations with numerous officials and representatives of civil society."

"These meetings have greatly contributed to acquainting me with the realities of Sudan and the official Sudanese point of view toward some initiatives aiming to achieve a peaceful solution and launching a peace process that allows the Sudanese people to restore decent life under an independent sovereign state," he noted.

SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): RAMTANE LAMAMRA, UN Secretary-General's Envoy to Sudan
"I will work hard with all parties to crystallize the UN's positive role in this regard."
 
Al-Burhan briefed the UN envoy on the efforts to seek a peaceful solution, stressing the Sudan government's commitment to democratic transformation and a transitional period that ends with general elections.

Sudan has been witnessing deadly clashes between the SAF and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces since April 15, 2023. More than 7.3 million people have been displaced inside and outside Sudan since the conflict broke out, and more than 12,000 people have been killed in the fighting, according to the latest update by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Khartoum.
(XHTV)