A group of Sudanese lawmakers urged President Omar al-Bashir to withdraw the country’s troops from a Saudi Arabian-led coalition waging war on Yemen.
According to Radio Dabanga report on Monday, the Alliance for Change, which comprises independent members of the Sudanese parliament, condemned as “unconstitutional” Sudan’s participation in the Saudi-led coalition against Yemen, presstv reported.
“Dispatching Sudanese Army soldiers and members of the Rapid Support Forces is an unconstitutional measure, and carried out without having been remitted to the parliament,” the lawmakers said in a statement on Sunday.
“Sudan should not interfere in the affairs of other countries,” Abulgasim Burtom, the chairman of the Alliance for Change, stated, adding that “The Interim Constitution of Sudan is clear: The President of the Republic has no right to decide to send an Army [to fight] abroad.”
Burtom stressed that Sudan “should opt for balanced relations with other countries that serve the interests of Sudan.”
He also called on the government “to appropriately compensate the families of the troops who died and were wounded in Yemen.”
