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Uganda: the president Omar Al Bachir is welcome
By African Bulletin on June 10, 2010
Reversal in the Ugandan position has completely changed after the presidency statement indicating that the Sudanese president would not be welcomed in Uganda, and Sudan could only send a governmental delegation at the U.A summit. In reaction, Sudan demanded excuses and threatened that the summit be transferred to another country.
But today, the Sudanese president Omar Al-Bachir is invited at the African Union Summit to be held on July in Kampala. An invitation was sent to him as to all his peers, with the exception of those who are suspended by the African Union, had declared the Ugandan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on Monday evening.
The Sudanese president was recently reelected, but he is under a warrant for arrest of the International Penal Court (IPC) and Uganda, as a member of the IPC, should execute in theory this mandate in case President Al Bachir would be on its territory.
Although 110 states ratified the Rome Statute to the IPC by the end of 2009, only 12 out of the G20 countries had done so. Among others, China, India, Indonesia, Russia, Turkey and the USA have stood aside from international justice efforts. President Al Bachir does not recognise the IPC authority. He visited, repeatedly, several Arabic and African countries.
The Sudanese president was recently reelected, but he is under a warrant for arrest of the International Penal Court (IPC) and Uganda, as a member of the IPC, should execute in theory this mandate in case President Al Bachir would be on its territory.
Although 110 states ratified the Rome Statute to the IPC by the end of 2009, only 12 out of the G20 countries had done so. Among others, China, India, Indonesia, Russia, Turkey and the USA have stood aside from international justice efforts. President Al Bachir does not recognise the IPC authority. He visited, repeatedly, several Arabic and African countries.