UNSC trip to Sudan in jeopardy over meeting with Bashir
September 20, 2010 (WASHINGTON) – The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is deadlocked in its plans to visit Sudan next month as some of the permanent members insist that they will not meet with president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir during the trip.
The charges relate to the seven years old conflict in Sudan’s western region of Darfur where the U.N. says that 300,000 have perished from violence, disease and hunger.
More than 2 million Darfuris have been displaced as a result of the conflict.
Sudan is insisting however that the UNSC must meet with Bashir for it to authorize the visit.
Ten of the fifteen UNSC members are signatories of the Rome Statute which is the founding treaty of ICC.
The council referred the situation in Darfur to the ICC in 2005 under a Chapter VII resolution because Sudan is not a signatory to the Hague tribunal.
The Sudanese leader however has received backing from the African Union (AU) and the Arab League both of which have urged its members not to cooperate with the court in apprehending Bashir. The latter denies the charges and says it is a Western plot to overthrow him.
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DASODIKO
UNSC trip to Sudan in jeopardy over meeting with Bashir
The logic says since you are humanilating yourself to come and beg the Islamist to ease the tension in the country,then why not to meet him since you are coming in his house where he is the big boss. UNSC should have worked long ago to arrest him before they come to visit him in his dent.
Abuoi Jook
UNSC trip to Sudan in jeopardy over meeting with Bashir
Lool at them (Arab Leaque and African Union! they stated Bashir indictment as western powers overthrow, from what? Didn’t he (Bashir) killed about 300,000 people from Darfur? did the so-called western powers kill that number or Bashir? Please let reality speaks for itself as permanent members stood their ground not meet with war criminal. Keep it up!!!!!