Iran calls ICC arrest warrant for Omar Al Bashir unjust

News number: 8712151031 17:04 | 2009-03-05 Foriegn Policy

Iran: Arrest Warrant for Bashir Unjust TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman has condemned the arrest warrant for Sudanese President Hassan al-Bashir over alleged war crimes.

Hassan Qashqavi said that the warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) was ‘unjust’ and ‘politically-motivated’. The ICC on Wednesday issued an international warrant for the arrest of President Bashir for ‘war crimes, and crimes against humanity’ in the violent Darfur region, press tv reported. Qashqavi said the warrant was a ‘blatant violation of the international law’, which undermined the ‘immunity of heads of state’. ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo holds Bashir responsible for the six-year conflict in Darfur, which the UN says has left 35,000 people killed. The Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu also condemned the ICC warrant on Wednesday. He called on the Sudanese government to speed up investigations of war crime suspects and put them on trial. Bashir has rejected allegations, calling the warrant ‘worthless’. If charged, Bashir will be the first incumbent head of state to stand trial before the international court.

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