Sarkozy invites Sudan’s Bashir to France-Africa summit
March 21, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — The French president Nicolas Sarkozy has extended an invitation to his Sudanese counterpart Omer Hassan Al-Bashir to take part in the 25th France-Africa summit that is scheduled for next May at the Riviera city of Nice.
The Sudanese president on his end promised that his government would fulfill the invitation without saying if he would personally participate.
Last December, the Egyptian government cancelled its hosting of the 25th France-Africa summit after failing to settle the dispute with Paris over the attendance of Bashir who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes committed in Darfur.
Cairo and Paris agreed to move the summit venue to France which would effectively mean that Bashir will stay away for fear of being arrested on the territory of an ICC state party.
The participation of the Sudanese president in the summit has been subject of intense diplomatic wrangling between Cairo and Paris last year.
French newspapers quoting officials at the Elysee palace at the time said that Sarkozy is adamant about not inviting Bashir to the conference.
The French government had initially sought a compromise in which the summit would be split in two parts, first at the ministerial level, focused on discussing economic issues with the absence of French officials, followed by a meeting of heads of state to which the Sudanese president would not be invited, something which Egypt rejected.
The list of events Bashir has skipped since the ICC warrant keeps growing. He has turned down several invitations in the last few months to attend events in Uganda, Nigeria, Venezuela, Denmark, Turkey, South Africa, Kenya and US for fear of arrest.
This month, Bashir addressed supporters in the Sudanese capital saying that he will continue to travel worldwide despite the warrant accusing world powers of standing behind his indictment.
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Dinka Boy
Sarkozy invites Sudan’s Bashir to France-Africa summit
Omer El Bashier is too coward who can only lead the Northern part of Sudan,but not the Southern Part of Sudan. Please present ourself to the ICC before election or step down immediately. Bashier need to be hang like his former friend-Saddam Hussein.
David_N
Sarkozy invites Sudan’s Bashir to France-Africa summit
French’s Nicolas Si-xxx-Lazy should invite a Lebanese parliament of Hezubollah section, Hassan Nasrallah to French-Africa summit, because in Nigeria and anywhere else in the West Africa, there are Hezubollah activities involves with African Terrorist Organizations of Niger-Delta Groups up North into Mali as well as other West African continents, where River Niger reaches geographically.
In the past centuries, the Lebanese officials freed so many terrorists groups into West Africa.
It’s French Colonial Continents of West African Countries were also victimized by so called Hezubollah.
Since 1992, Hezubollah’s Hassan Nasrallah is officially in the Lebanese Parliaments Member of Shi’ites Groups.
And U.N. backs Hezubollah!
That’s funny huh?
I know there are Syrians, Iranians, Bosnians, and Lebanese terrorist organizations presence in throughout West Africa. The French has it’s responsibility for terrorist activities in those countries!
P.S..
The Hezubollah involved with Liberian Charles Taylor in the past…
Dr.Agany
Sarkozy invites Sudan’s Bashir to France-Africa summit
Hahahahhahahahahhahah mr. Bashir!! Take care there. All whites are whites and there is no trust there, otherwise you will be with Taylor soon.
Sudan virus
Sarkozy invites Sudan’s Bashir to France-Africa summit
A blind president of Europe. How can you invited a president which is beyond doubt voted out in the April 2010 general elections?
Just advice him to report to the ICC hotel in the Hague and wait for his genocide trial.
babadit
Sarkozy invites Sudan’s Bashir to France-Africa summit
Al Bashir must know that his arrest may come any time weather in khartoum or every where in Africa.
please hand over yourself to the ICC
Machingela gai
Sarkozy invites Sudan’s Bashir to France-Africa summit
Friends,
Bashir is forging his international free movement against his indictment. Why he is talking about his movement now than it was in the past? He had been invited to the world summits many times, but he refused. African countries invited him into their Meetings, however, bashir’s seat is always marked with no butts in it, likewise. What changes this time?
The Khartoum government and their political display has nothing to do with the election than a mere political talk they are airing out. The election heats up and they do feel the pressure from the inside about where they will rest in the end after this election. The president and his working circle are trying to overstate what position they hold than what they do not deserve worldwide. The president in particular had already failed to fulfill the requirements needed by the international community: He refuses to accept brutalities occurring in Darfur; he condones indictment against himself to clear off the charges of those crimes he had committed in the court of law…and his direct connection with world leaders is very rare. Since that day of his indictment, Bashir never had the desire to attend any important event near neighboring countries even though the head of states have the obligations to do so. Why now he will go for visiting?
He has even poorely handled the CPA between South and North with the misconception of dumbing it away and remain in power until his last breath. That is his internal ingenus evil plan he is wagging.
How is that easy for him to travel while the list of what to do at home is too far from the start?
The indictment is a debt and a past due one?
Bashir must answer the court before anything!
The Unsteady president is fighting his own thoughts.
The recent claimed invitations: to South Africa, to Venzuela, and the Franch’s invitation are all complex delimmas within the election. And things are hanging between political fraud and political philosophy. If not none of the two, then it is untested political assumption in the play, the obvious theory.
Do you think that Bashir will travel now or after election?
Is he showing that he is no longer under indictment?
Do you think that Bashir is washing up our brains in order to vote for him?
You give me your insights?
These political behaviors are anticipating what might happen during election: Bashir and his screw are well prepared to rig election. However, his invitations are not in existence, he is plainly lying to the nation. He is therefore showing his weakness to Sudanse through these cheap politics. Please, let us not zip up our ears to hear all these political nonseneses.
DASODIKO
Sarkozy invites Sudan’s Bashir to France-Africa summit
ICC has increased the popoular support of President Bashir, he can go anywhere he wants, including the Hague. I am sure if he goes there the French will let him to meet Abdul Wahid, and by co-incident they may agree on issues. I urge Presidnet Bashir not to skip such important chance. We know he is brave enough to wrestle the black lion. Heeeeh wad aljaal; wal assa foog
telfajbago
Sarkozy invites Sudan’s Bashir to France-Africa summit
It is good that President Sarkozy’s invitation to the criminal President on the Run Al-Bashir coming two days after he made his bravado to German magazine.
Mr. Criminal cheer up and show the world how the ICC decision boosted your popularity and go to France if you are really your father’s son and Jaalei enough. But I know that, even among criminal Presidents who commit genocide against their on people, they are cowards too ( men only in form) and Al-Bashir is one of them that is why he will not risk himself ;nevertheless he will continue making Al-sahaaf’s( Saddam’s regime minister of information) like- buzz to the media.