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Tuesday, 29 July 2008 |
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The U.N. Security Council was split on Monday over an effort by Libya and South Africa to have the Council prevent the International Criminal Court from indicting Sudan's President Omer Al-Bashir on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur.
The Council discussed the Libyan and South African proposals after the ICC's Chief Prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, asked the Court's judges to issue an arrest warrant for President Al-Bashir. South Africa and Libya want to include a paragraph halting any ICC move in a resolution to extend the mandate of a joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID), which expires on Thursday. But the United States, France and other Western countries made it clear that they wanted to keep the two issues separate. As a result, the Council failed to reach any agreement.
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