President Petro responds to the request of Sudan on Colombian mercenaries: "Ex -aged and ex -agent, they are not sold"

President Gustavo Petro asked to “stop mercenarism” in Colombia after the prime minister of Sudan, Kamel Idris, called Colombia to stop the sending of mercenaries that, he said, fight in favor of the paramilitaries Fast Support forces (FAR). “The Prime Minister of Sudan, Kamel Idris, addresses the Colombian nation. Stop the merceamism in Colombia. Exoficial, they are not sold. West of the country, “ending the recruitment of Colombian mercenaries.” The demolition of an Emirati plane in an area controlled by the FAR in western Sudan. According to official Sudanese television, the plane was demolished when the mercenaries were heading to the Nyala airport, capital of the Sudanese state of Darfur Sur and under the control of the FAR, involved in a devastating war with the regular army since April 2023. In last July, Russia also denounced the high number of Colombian mercenaries in ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. For that reason, the Colombian government settled in August last year a bill to avoid the recruitment of mercenaries by organizations that lead them to wars that have nothing to do with their country, as is the case with those of Sudan and Ukraine. The initiative seeks to approve the international convention against recruitment, the use, the financing, the financing, the financing, the financing, the financing, the financing, approved by the United Nations General Assembly on December 4, 1989. EFE

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