CAIRO – 13 September 2025: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States issued a joint statement on Friday calling for a three-month truce as a pathway to a permanent ceasefire and the restoration of peace and security in Sudan.
The statement follows weeks of intensive consultations among the Foreign Ministers of the four nations, as part of the Quartet’s coordinated efforts to end the conflict and alleviate the suffering of the Sudanese people.
The Foreign Ministers put forward an initiative to end the war in Sudan. They called for an inclusive and transparent transition process, not controlled by any warring party. The Ministers called for a humanitarian truce, initially lasting three months, to allow the swift delivery of aid to all parts of Sudan.
This truce should immediately lead to a permanent ceasefire. Following that, an inclusive and transparent transition process should be launched and concluded within nine months, reflecting the aspirations of the Sudanese people to establish a stable, independent, and civilian-led government with broad-based legitimacy and accountability. Such a government is essential for the long-term stability of Sudan and the preservation of its state institutions.
Sudan’s future must not be dictated by violent extremist groups affiliated with, or evidently linked to, the Muslim Brotherhood, whose destabilizing influence has fueled violence and instability across the region, the statement said.
The conflicting parties of Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia have committed war crimes and atrocities since mid-April 2023. On September 9, 2025, the UN Human Right Council submitted a report documenting that dozens of detainees have reportedly killed due to torture and the systematic deprivation of food and medical treatment since June.
It has been estimated that the war claimed the lives of 150,000 people by June 2024. As of July 2025, 12 million people had been forced to flee their homes, including 7.7 million internally displaced persons (IDPs)—more than half of whom are children, said Migration Policy Institute on July 17, 2025.
Here is the full text of the joint statement:
At the invitation of the United States, Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the United States, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates have engaged in extensive consultations on the conflict in Sudan, recalling that it has provoked the world’s worst humanitarian crisis and poses grave risks to regional peace and security. Ministers committed to a shared set of principles with regard to ending the conflict in Sudan.
First, Sudan’s sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity are essential for peace and stability.
Second, there is no viable military solution to the conflict, and the status quo creates unacceptable suffering and risks to peace and security.
Third, all parties to the conflict must facilitate rapid, safe, and unhindered humanitarian access and assistance throughout Sudan and through all necessary routes, protect civilians in accordance with international humanitarian law and their commitments under the Jeddah Declaration, and refrain from indiscriminate aerial and ground attacks on civilian infrastructure.
Fourth, Sudan’s future governance is for the Sudanese people to decide through an inclusive and transparent transition process, not controlled by any warring party. The Ministers called for a humanitarian truce, for an initial three months, to enable the swift entry of humanitarian aid to all parts of Sudan, to lead immediately to a permanent ceasefire, then an inclusive and transparent transition process should be launched and concluded within nine months to meet the aspirations of the Sudanese people towards smoothly establishing an independent, civilian-led government with broad-based legitimacy and accountability, which is vital for the long-term stability of Sudan and the preservation of its state Institutions. Sudan’s future cannot be dictated by violent extremist groups part of or evidently linked to the Muslim brotherhood, whose destabilizing influence has fueled violence and instability across the region.
The ministers agreed to closely follow up the implementation of these timelines and affirmed their readiness to exercise their good offices and carry out all necessary efforts to ensure the full implementation by the parties, including to reconvene to discuss further steps.
Fifth, external military support to the conflict parties in Sudan serves to intensify and prolong the conflict and contribute to regional instability. Accordingly, an end to external military support is essential to ending the conflict.
Ministers also committed to the following commitments for their further engagement in support of a peaceful resolution:
To exert all efforts to support a negotiated settlement of the conflict with the active participation of SAF and RSF;
To press all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure and ensure humanitarian assistance reaches those in need;
To promote conditions that ensure the security of the broader Red Sea region;
To counter transnational security threats from terrorist and extremist organizations and the conditions that allow them to metastasize; and
To deny space to those destabilizing regional and domestic actors who seek to benefit from continued conflict in Sudan.
Ministers underscored their commitment to restoring peace and ending the suffering of the Sudanese people, as well as their preparedness to engage in concert with African and Arab states and institutions, the United Nations, and international partners to those ends.
Ministers discussed pressing humanitarian and early recovery requirements and underscored the need to continue to galvanize the international community to this end and to build on recent humanitarian meetings.
Ministers confirmed their intention to continue discussions, consultations, and meetings, at the ministerial and sub-ministerial levels, to further their coordinated efforts in support of ending the conflict in Sudan, including support towards the establishment and implementation of an inclusive and transparent transition. Towards this end, Ministers expressed support to efforts by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States of America, through the Jeddah process to achieve a permanent ceasefire in Sudan, as well as the efforts by Egypt with regards to the Sudanese civil and political forces forum which held its first round in Cairo during July 2024. The Ministers agreed to continue their consultations in this regard during the Quad ministerial meeting in September 2025.
Sat, Sep. 13, 2025
