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| Bashir back in Sudan after defying ICC in Chad |
| 2010-07-25 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] President Omar Hassan al-Bashir returned to Sudan on Friday after defying indictment for genocide by visiting Chad, a party to the International Criminal Court and so in theory obliged to arrest him. Chadian President Idriss Deby instead gave a red-carpet welcome to Bashir, who spent three days in N'Djamena scoring a propaganda coup and exposing the ICC's key weakness -- its lack of a mechanism to arrest war crimes suspects. Upon his return to Khartoum, Bashir's visit to Chad was hailed by his entourage as "more than a double victory" as it boosted the neighbors' ties and was his first trip to a country that recognizes the ICC. "This summit... shows African solidarity and it also exposes the ICC and its agenda and it also exposes the agenda of some European countries and the United States in particular," presidential adviser Ghazi Salaheddine said. |
| Posted by:Fred |