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Source: Arabic.net, agencies
The Transitional Sovereignty Council affirmed that the military component can permanently approve the nomination of General of Pensions General Yassin Ibrahim Yassin for the position of Minister of Defense, and the nomination was presented to the Prime Minister for his appointment and then approved by the Council of Sovereignty in accordance with the constitutional document.
The Sovereignty Council confirmed in a press release today, Wednesday, that the trilateral meeting held at the Republican Palace on May 6 and included the President of the Sovereignty Council and several of its members, the Prime Minister and two other ministers, in addition of the component of the forces of freedom and change.
Abolish the Joint Chiefs of Staff system
The Sudanese Defense Minister, Lt. Gen. Jamal Al-Din Omar, had met him following a sudden angina in Juba, the capital of the Republic of South Sudan.
Last October, the Chairman of the Sovereign Council, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Lt. Gen. Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan, issued decisions to restructure the Sudanese army, in order to abolish the system of chiefs of staff followed by the government of the ousted president Omar al-Bashir, and return to work with the old system of “General Staff”. .
The restructuring decision included returning the Sudanese army to 4 instead of 3 after separating the “air defense” from the “air force”, which had been merged by the previous regime.
The Council of Ministers will be made up of a president and a number of ministers not exceeding twenty independent national powers in consultation. They will be appointed by the Prime Minister from the list of candidates for the forces of freedom and change and approved by the Sovereign Council, with the exception of the Defense and Interior ministers appointed by the military component of the Sovereign Council.
Last August, the Military Council and the Forces for Freedom and Change signed the document “Constitutional Declaration” after the marathon meetings, in a festive atmosphere that prevailed on the Sudanese street.
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