There is no political tension around the plans to create a Russian military base in Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast, but there are some circumstances that delay the work, a senior source in the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
"There is no tension, I don't see any complications," a senior diplomat told Interfax.
According to him, "in principle, we have agreed, but there are some circumstances that still delay work in this direction."
The interlocutor of the agency recalled that after the change of power in the country, the parliament did not work in full force, while the agreements on the military base needed its approval. In addition, he stressed, "there were some counter promises from our side through military contacts, and this issue is also not settled for objective reasons, not because of political preferences, but purely physically."
On July 1, it was reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted to the State Duma a bill on ratification of the agreement with Sudan on the construction of a navy base on the Red Sea. The agreement was signed in Khartoum on July 23, 2019 and in Moscow on December 1, 2020.
In early June 2021, the Chief of the General Staff 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," al - Hussein said.
