The 27 EU Heads of State or Government, who will be meeting at the ‘European Council’ on 17 and 18 October, are expected to call on the international community to deliver on funding promises made at the Conference for Sudan, co-organised in Paris by the EU, France and Germany last April (see EUROPE 13391/2).
“The European Union (...) calls on the international community to swiftly disburse the pledges made at the International Humanitarian Conference for Sudan“, state draft conclusions of the European Council meeting on Saturday 5 October, obtained by Agence Europe.
At the time, French President Emmanuel Macron announced a total of more than €2 billion in humanitarian commitments.
For its part, the EU has already disbursed the €896 million promised and has even recently increased its budget by €69 million (see EUROPE 13491/14).
Expressing their “deepest concern about the catastrophic humanitarian situation”, the EU27 are also expected to call for an “immediate cessation of hostilities” between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Sudan Revolutionary Front (see EUROPE 13163/27).
See the draft conclusions of the ‘European Council’: https://aeur.eu/f/dqz (Original version in French by Bernard Denuit)