White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby denied the claims that the US government has a plan to evacuate its government personnel from Sudan during a press conference on Thursday in Washington.

He affirmed that the government has ‘good accountability’ for all the personnel located in the Sudan, and it is working to co-locate citizens for their safety.

“But again, no decision has been made on that. The focus right now is on urging both sides to stop this violence, to abide by a ceasefire, and to allow humanitarian aid to get to the people that need it,” Kirby stated.

Kirby mentioned that prepositioning forces is not something new for the US military, and this choice has been made by the Pentagon in case a possible evacuation needs to take place in the region.

“Let's not get ahead of where we are, focus right now is just prepositioning military forces nearby the region, in case it is needed. No decision has been made to evacuate anybody and what we said early on was that we advise Americans not to travel to Khartoum, not to travel to Sudan. We made it clear that they should be making their way out of the country,” he said.

The spokesperson went on to state that US President Joe Biden is following the situation in Khartoum closely and that he has been in touch with the US National Security Team regularly since the armed conflict started.

His comments come after the Pentagon announced that it will deploy US troops to Djibouti in case of an evacuation of American embassy staff.