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Subject: Arab League slams ICC prosecutor
Arab League slams ICC prosecutor
Agencies
CAIRO: The Arab League yesterday criticized the International Criminal Court's
prosecutor for seeking the arrest of Sudan's president on genocide charges,
saying diplomacy should be given a priority to solve the conflict in Darfur.
Arab foreign ministers, holding an emergency meeting in Cairo, said Arab League
Secretary-General Amr Moussa would head to Khartoum today to inform the
Sudanese leadership of a plan to defuse the crisis. Moussa said he would
announce the details within two days.
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis
Moreno-Ocampo, has asked the court for a warrant for President Omar Bashir on
suspicion of masterminding crimes against humanity in his country's troubled
Darfur region.
Moreno-Ocampo accused Bashir of running a campaign of genocide that killed
35,000 people outright, at least another 100,000 through a "slow death" and
forced 2.5 million to flee their homes in Darfur. The final communiqué of the
meeting said the ministers "called for giving priority to a political
settlement... and sought an international high-profile summit to push the
political process in Darfur."
The resolution criticized Moreno-Ocampo's "unbalanced stance" for asking ICC
judges to issue a warrant for Bashir's arrest, which, if granted, would be the
first ever issued by The Hague-based court against a sitting head of state.
Earlier opening the meeting, Djibouti Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssef said
the ICC had set a dangerous precedent. "The indictment sets a dangerous
precedent in dealing with heads of state. It will have dangerous repercussions,
not only for Sudan but also for the whole region," said Youssef, who chaired
the meeting.
Hours before the meeting convened, Yemen's lower house of Parliament condemned
the charges against Bashir as legally groundless.
A resolution passed by the 301-seat Yemeni Assembly of Representatives
dismissed them as a "complete falsehood and an infringement on Sudan's internal
affairs." It added that the charges were "part of a plot targeting Arab and
Muslim nations." The perception that the charges are politically motivated has
been expressed by other Arab officials.
At the Cairo meeting, Youssef criticized what he branded "the double standard"
of the international community, saying that "the world has been watching for
years Palestinians suffering without moving" to end it. The charges against
Bashir came a year after the court indicted Sudanese Humanitarian Affairs
Minister Ahmed Harun, who was formerly in charge of security in Darfur, and
suspected militia leader Ali Kushayb for crimes against humanity.
Before yesterday's meeting, a source said the ministers would discuss a
proposal urging Bashir to surrender Harun and Kushayb to the ICC in return for
asking the UN Security Council to defer prosecution of Bashir for at least a
year. Such a suspension, which is indefinitely renewable, is necessary because
the penal process against Bashir "reduces the chances of peace in Darfur," a
diplomat said.
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