May 5. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The spokesman for the White House National Security Council, John Kirby, has clarified that the executive order that the United States has issued this Thursday — which will allow the different federal agencies to extend the sanctions to those individuals who obstruct the transition towards democracy in Sudan — does not imply that they are going to impose sanctions at this time.
During a press conference, Kirby explained that, for the moment, they have not imposed sanctions nor do they anticipate doing so: “This executive order will now authorize the Treasury Department and others to take a look and see if something like this is appropriate.”
This Thursday, President Joe Biden signed the executive order detailing that the situation in Sudan “constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States”, a formula traditionally used for this type of decree.
To avoid this threat, the country’s organizations will have the capacity to impose sanctions on people or organizations that interfere with peace in the context of confrontations between the Army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
In the order, Biden declares that “the violence taking place in Sudan is a tragedy, and is a betrayal of the demand of the Sudanese people for civilian rule and a transition to democracy,” and has confirmed Washington’s commitment to a peace process in the country.
