Ambassador of Ukraine to Egypt Mykola Nahornyi presented copies of his credentials to the Sudan’s acting Foreign Minister as non-resident ambassador to Sudan
Khartoum: Altaghyeer
Ambassador of Ukraine to Egypt Mykola Nahornyi presented copies of his credentials to the Sudan’s acting Foreign Minister as non-resident ambassador to Sudan.
The ambassador arrived to Port Sudan, the Sudan’s adminstrative capital, on Tuesday accompanied by his embassy’s political advisor and honorary consul.
He said Ukraine would open a temporary embassy in Port Sudan within the coming few months.
Nahornyi handed the Sudan’s acting Foreign Minister an invitation to attend the Ukraine’s Global Peace Summit which will be opened in June.
Within this peace intiative, Ukraine has sent this month a new shipment containing 22,000 tons of wheat to Sudan.
The ambassador also met with member of the Sudan’s coup Soveriegn Council General Ibrahim Jabir and discussed with him fields of bliateral cooperation particularly rehabilitation after end of war in both countries.
Sudan have an embassy in Kiev since 2012.
According to the American Wall Street Journal, the Ukrainian special forces fight alongside the Sudanese Armed Forces in its war against the Rapid Support Forces within a strategy aiming at undermining Russian economic and military operations abroad.
The Journal said the Ukrainian special forces have helped in rescuing General Abdel Fattah al Burhan, president of the Sudan’s status quo government, who was besieged for months by the rival Rapid Support Forces in the Sudanese army’s General Command in Khartoum.
Ukraine has also helped in supplying Sudan with the famous Turkish “Birgdar” drones, Wall Street Journal said.
