The European Parliament is scheduled to vote this week on a resolution over the escalation of Sudan’s civil war and the ensuing humanitarian catastrophe.
The European Commissioner for Crisis Management, Hadja Lahbib, is expected to attend a debate on Tuesday before a vote on Thursday.
The centrist group Renew is understood to be spearheading the resolution. Negotiations on the final text are continuing. Political groups can each table a resolution and negotiate on joint resolutions if they have converging positions.
“In Sudan, we are seeing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis,” said the head of the Renew group in the European Parliament, French politician Valerie Hayer. “We would want to make sure that humanitarian aid gets through. We condemn all the protagonists who are fuelling the crisis.”
On Monday, European Parliament spokeswoman Delphine Colard clarified that the deadline for joint resolutions is Wednesday.
Valerie Hayer, head of the Renew group in the European Parliament, said she condemned all protagonists fuelling Sudan's war. EPA
The resolution is expected to focus on the “escalation of the war and the humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan”, the European Parliament's newsletter stated last week.
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