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June 24, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir arrived in the Iranian capital on Friday to participate in an anti-terrorism conference, state media reported. FILE - Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) and Sudanese President Omer Hassan al-Bashir talk during an official departure ceremony for the Sudanese president in Tehran, Iran, April 26, 2006.(UPI) Sudan official news agency (SUNA) said that Bashir is accompanied by foreign minister Ali Karti, interior minister Ibrahim Mahmood Hamid, minster of presidential affairs Bakri Hassan Saleh and director of National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) Mohamed Atta al-Moula. The trip by Bashir is in defiance to the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has issued two arrest warrants on charges of crimes against humanity and genocide in the Darfur region, where a bloody conflict has raged for eight years. Iran is not a signatory to the country’s founding treaty and is therefore has no obligation to arrest the Sudanese leader. The two-day International Conference of the Global Campaign against Terrorism will confront the "double standard" of the world powers on terrorism, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast said today. He said powers enter the scene under the pretext of campaign against terrorism when their interests are at stake and they negotiate with terrorists when consider it linked with their interests. Both Iran and Sudan are on Washington’s list of state sponsors of terrorism. Bashir will head to Beijing on Sunday night in response to an invitation he received from his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao. (ST) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JFD info" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jfdinfo?hl=en.
