Port Sudan, July 9(Darfur24)Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Tuesday that his visit to Sudan comes in solidarity with the Sudanese people, explaining that “true friends appear in times of trouble.”
Today, Tuesday, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed arrived in Port Sudan on an official visit, during which he held bilateral discussions with the Sudanese Army Commander, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan.
Abiy Ahmed said that the visit came to confirm that the government and people of Ethiopia stand with Sudan, indicating that the visit is a message of solidarity with the people of Sudan in their ordeal. He added that “the war will end and the relations between the two countries will remain firm and strong.”
The Ethiopian Prime Minister pointed to the importance of peace as the basis of development, stressing that countries’ problems must be solved internally without external interference.
For his part, the Sudanese Army Commander, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, said that the visit of the Ethiopian Prime Minister indicates the depth of relations between the peoples of the two countries, indicating that it is an extension of the sincerity of the Ethiopian leadership and its good intentions towards Sudan.
Al-Burhan stressed the strength of relations between the two countries and the importance of preserving them.
Al-Burhan provided enlightenment to the Ethiopian Prime Minister about the situation in Sudan against the backdrop of the ongoing war with the Rapid Support Forces, indicating that the Rapid Support Forces committed crimes and atrocities against the Sudanese people, in addition to destroying the state’s infrastructure and targeting national institutions.
Al-Burhan stressed Sudan’s keenness to develop areas of cooperation with Ethiopia in order to serve the common interests of the peoples of the two countries.