The agreement on the logistics point may be amended prior to its ratification
Moscow. June 10. INTERFAX-Russia confirms its readiness to strengthen military-technical cooperation with Sudan, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
"As for our side, we confirm our interest in strengthening partnership with Sudan in various fields, including military and military-technical cooperation," she said at a briefing in Moscow on Thursday.
Commenting on the intention of the Sudanese authorities to review the agreement on the Russian logistics point, the diplomat said: "The document has not yet been ratified, because in the conditions of the transition period in the country there is no legislative authority with the necessary powers."
"Accordingly, before the entry into force of the agreement, its text may be amended separately by agreement and at the discretion of the parties themselves," Zakharova stressed.
In December 2020, it became known that Russia and Sudan signed an agreement on the establishment of a logistics support point in Sudan (PMTO) Russian Navy. The document was published on the official Internet portal of legal information.
The agreement noted that the maximum number of Russian military personnel in the naval station in Sudan will not exceed 300 people. The document assumes that at the point of the Russian Navy in Sudan at the same time can be a maximum of four Russian ships.
In early June, the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Sudan, Mohammed Osman al-Hussein, announced the country's intention to review the agreements with the Russian Federation on the naval base.
"We are in the process of reviewing the agreement signed between the former Government of Sudan and Russia on the Russian military project on the Red Sea coast in Sudan," he said.
According to him, since this agreement was signed under the previous regime and "was not ratified by the legislature, as required by the procedure for approving international treaties," Sudan "has the opportunity to make amendments and changes" taking into account the interests of the country.
"Therefore, we are reviewing it to determine the interests of Sudan in this agreement, and this was discussed at the last negotiations (with the Russian side)," said Mohammed Osman al - Hussein.
On June 4, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told Interfax that the Russian Embassy in Khartoum had received explanations from the Sudanese side regarding the intention to reconsider the decision to create a logistics support point for the Russian Navy in this country.
