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Added10. Calls for the restoration and strengthening of the rule of law, accountability, respect for international law – including international humanitarian law and human rights law – and justice in Sudan; stresses that Sudan’s future cannot be shaped by violent extremist groups and networks, whose destabilising influence has long fuelled violence and instability in Sudan and across the region; demands the immediate cessation of hostilities and calls on all parties to engage in meaningful dialogue to end the conflict and establish a transition to civilian democratic governance; calls on all third-party actors to support diplomatic actions to secure a cessation of hostilities; condemns all violations of all UN arms embargoes; reaffirms that a genuinely civilian-led transition is the only viable path forward towards sustainable peace in Sudan; strongly supports the efforts of the African Union and regional partners to facilitate a peace process;

Added11. Demands that safe humanitarian corridors be opened, particularly into El Fasher, Kadugli and El Obeid, and that these be monitored and verified by the United Nations and the African Union to ensure compliance; stresses that the EU must actively promote and support a verifiable ceasefire as a prerequisite for any sustainable peace process;

Added12. Calls for immediate, safe and unimpeded humanitarian access to all affected populations, wherever they are, and demands that both parties cease the weaponisation of aid; urges all parties to the conflict to remove all barriers hindering the delivery of humanitarian assistance without delay, and to ensure immediate, unconditional, safe and unhindered humanitarian access, cease deliberate obstruction and protect civilians; calls for support to be provided to neighbouring countries hosting Sudanese refugees;

Added13. Calls on the warring parties to restore communication services throughout Sudan without delay, ending internet blackouts that violate Sudanese people’s right to information, hinder the delivery of humanitarian and emergency services, affect the safety and protection of civilians and obstruct crucial monitoring and reporting on ongoing violations of international human rights and humanitarian law;

Added14. Deplores the mass killings, executions and sexual violence perpetrated in El Fasher and its surroundings during and after the RSF assault; expresses deep concern at reports of continued abductions and at the lack of humanitarian access; condemns, in particular, the deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure, including the destruction of mosques and churches, and calls for religious minorities to be protected and their right to worship safeguarded;

Added15. Urges the warring parties to immediately put an end to hostilities, cease all attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure, halt attacks on infrastructure and humanitarian aid, end the use of starvation and sexual violence as weapons of war and cease the recruitment and use of child soldiers, and to permit unfettered humanitarian access throughout the country, create humanitarian corridors, seek a negotiated solution and fulfil their Jeddah Declaration commitments; expresses deep concern at the alarming deterioration in the humanitarian crisis in Sudan, as the conflict has led to and continues to fuel the most severe humanitarian catastrophe worldwide, with confirmed famine in parts of the country; expresses concern, furthermore, about the effect of mass migration to neighbouring countries;

Added16. Calls on all parties to immediately end the widespread use of rape and all other forms of sexual and gender-based violence as weapons of war; calls for support for protection, care, treatment and psychosocial support for survivors of sexual violence;

Added17. Calls on the warring parties to cease targeted attacks and harassment of Sudanese activists, human rights defenders, journalists and civil society representatives;

Added18. Urges all parties to uphold their obligations under international humanitarian law and human rights law by using every possible means to protect civilians and civilian objects; stresses that addressing the situation of women and girls in Sudan, and in particular the ongoing conflict-related sexual violence, must be prioritised in the efforts aimed at addressing the Sudan conflict; underlines the need for sufficient support for emergency social services, and for specific support for the protection, care, treatment and support mechanisms for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence;

Added19. Calls on the countries neighbouring Sudan to open their borders to Sudanese refugees, and for the EU and its Member States to rapidly increase emergency funding for the humanitarian response in Sudan and in refugee camps in neighbouring countries;

Added20. Highlights the grave risk that the conflict in Sudan will spill over to other vulnerable regions, such as the Horn of Africa and the Sahel, and is gravely concerned by the effects of the Sudanese crisis on irregular migration flows towards Europe;

Added21. Urges the Council and the Commission to maintain and increase the EU’s humanitarian commitment of EUR 273 million for Sudan and the region, ensuring that funds reach those most in need;

Added22. Demands that the perpetrators of all criminal actions against the Sudanese people be held to account without delay; calls for the EU and the Member States to support the expansion of the International Criminal Court’s jurisdiction to the whole of Sudan, the establishment of an independent judicial mechanism, as recommended by the IIFFM, and the bringing of national proceedings under universal jurisdiction;

Added23. Emphasises that accountability is a legal and moral imperative; stresses that justice cannot wait and that the international community must act decisively to prosecute those responsible under international law;

Added24. Calls for prompt, effective, thorough, independent, impartial and transparent investigations to hold perpetrators accountable, including those in the chain of command;

Added25. Calls for the EU and its Member States to redouble diplomatic efforts towards both warring parties and use all instruments at their disposal to ensure access for all accountability mechanisms, to urgently respond to serious human rights and international humanitarian law violations in Sudan and to hold perpetrators to account for these violations;

Added26. Urges the EU to apply targeted sanctions under the EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime to key RSF and SAF commanders, including Generals Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Muhammad Hamdan ‘Hemedti’ Dagalo and their respective networks, as well as to financiers and external enablers, for their responsibility for serious violations of international humanitarian law;

Added27. Calls on the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the Commission, the Council and the Member States, having regard to their obligations under the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, to take strong action and work closely with international partners to prevent genocide in Sudan;

Added28. Urges all parties to the conflict to engage constructively in inclusive ceasefire negotiations and highlights the urgent need for a credible and inclusive mediation process; urges all external actors who, whether directly or indirectly, are supplying arms, financial support or support of any other kind to the warring parties to immediately cease such support and to comply with the UN arms embargo; notes that the existing arms embargo is limited to Darfur and calls for it to be expanded to cover the whole of Sudan;

Added29. Welcomes the joint statement issued by the Quad (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the United States) on 12 September 2025 on ending the conflict in Sudan and recalls that it remains the sole recognised mediation format for this conflict; expresses support for the efforts of the African Union and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development to coordinate international and bilateral pressure on all parties to secure a ceasefire, improve humanitarian access and relaunch an inclusive political dialogue, in cooperation with partners such as the EU, the League of Arab States and the United Nations;

Added30. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the governments and parliaments of the Member States, the African Union, the United Nations Secretary-General, the UN Human Rights Council, the International Criminal Court, and the authorities of Sudan.