Morning Star.png Bashir in Rwanda for AU Summit in spite of ICC Warrant Withdrawal from the ICC is on the agenda The Morning Star, London, 18 July 2016 Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir arrived in Rwanda for an African Union (AU) summit on Friday in defiance of an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant for his arrest. Ahead of the Kigali summit, African nations renewed efforts to leave the ICC, which to date has only prosecuted African leaders - while Israel and the US refuse to join. "Withdrawal from the ICC is entirely within the sovereignty of a particular state," AU official Joseph Chilengi told reporters on Saturday. Botswana, Nigeria, Senegal and Ivory Coast - whose government supports the ICC prosecution of former president Laurent Gbagbo - oppose withdrawal. Mr Bashir, whose country is not an ICC member and so does not accept the court's jurisdiction, ignored a Johannesburg court's attempt to force the South African government to arrest him at last year's AU summit. The Sudanese president is accused by the ICC of directing a campaign of mass killing and rape against civilians in Darfur. South African President Jacob Zuma called for a review of the AU's ICC membership at the bloc's January summit. The latest bloody flare-up in South Sudan's civil war is also expected to be high on the summit's agenda. From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-9306-Sudan-Bashir-in-Rwanda-despite-war rant#.V4xeQ_l9600 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 13818 (20160718) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/008401d1e0c3%24952f88e0%24bf8e9aa0%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
