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| Sudan to refute ICC accusations with legal defenses |
| 2008-07-21 |
| (Xinhua) -- A senior Sudanese official said here his country is seeking for legal defenses to refute International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor's call to arrest Sudanese president over alleged war crimes, the Egyptian state MENA news agency reported on Sunday. Sudan is consulting Arab legal experts in this regard, Sudanese Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Salman al-Wasilla said at a seminar in Cairo. Describing the ICC prosecutor's decision as "faulty," Wasilla said an Arab lawyers' delegation would visit Sudan to offer legal assistance to face the ICC allegations. According to earlier reports, a delegation of the Arab Lawyers Union will arrive in Khartoum on July 21. The Arab lawyers will meet Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and attend an emergency meeting to lay down a legal mechanism to deal with the ICC prosecutor's accusations. On Monday, the Hague-based ICC's Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo formally requested an arrest warrant against al-Bashir for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in the western Sudanese region of Darfur. Sudan, which is not a member of the ICC, has rejected the ICC allegations, dismissing them as "null and false" and maintaining the ICC has no jurisdiction over Sudan. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Axed, put down, taken out, relieved of duty, smoked, scragged, scuffed, croaked, stuck like a pig. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-07-21 12:11 |
| #5 The UN Security Council referred the situation in Darfur to the Prosecutor of the ICC in Resolution 1593 (2005)on 31 March 2005. The resolution requires Sudan and all other parties to the conflict in Darfur to cooperate with the Court. It also invites the Court and the African Union to discuss practical arrangements that will facilitate the work of the Prosecutor and of the Court, including the possibility of conducting proceedings in the region. |
| Posted by: john frum 2008-07-21 08:16 |
| #4 Territorial jurisdiction During the negotiations that led to the Rome Statute, a large number of states argued that the Court should be allowed to exercise universal jurisdiction. However, this proposal was defeated due in large part to opposition from the United States.[37] A compromise was reached, allowing the Court to exercise jurisdiction only under the following limited circumstances: * where the person accused of committing a crime is a national of a state party (or where the person's state has accepted the jurisdiction of the Court); * where the alleged crime was committed on the territory of a state party (or where the state on whose territory the crime was committed has accepted the jurisdiction of the Court); or * where a situation is referred to the Court by the UN Security Council. |
| Posted by: john frum 2008-07-21 08:11 |
| #3 Map of the world with the states parties to the Rome Statute (as of June 2008) shown in green |
| Posted by: john frum 2008-07-21 08:10 |
| #2 You know, greased, flamed, snuffed, dispatched, retired, decommissioned, wasted, iced, hosed, boxed, deep sixed, bagged. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-07-21 07:46 |
| #1 They're EUrocrats, they have jurisdiction over EVERYBODY!!! ICC is a joke, why don't we just have this guy rubbed out. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-07-21 07:43 |