New Delhi, Sept. 26 -- For the first time since Sudan's civil war began, the government fighting to survive it does not need a battlefield win to feel besieged in New York. It needs a visa.

sign a 90-day ceasefire drafted by Washington's senior advisor for Arab and African affairs, Massad Boulos, or do not expect to address the chamber. Burhan refused the condition and postponed the trip. Sudan's foreign minister will read the country's address in his place.

Sudan's ambassador to the UN, Al-Harith Idriss Al-Harith, wrote to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres this week requesting "immediate intervention," framing the delay as a breach of the obligations the United States accepted when it agreed to host the UN on its own soil. One diploma...