Sudan won't deal with ICC
2009-03-04 16:49
Cairo - Sudanese Justice Minister Abdel Basit Sabdarat vowed on Wednesday his country would not co-operate with the International Criminal Court after it issued an arrest warrant for President Omar el-Bashir.
"We will not deal with this court," he told Al-Jazeera television.
"It has no jurisdiction, it is a political decision."
Earlier in the day ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Sudan was legally obliged to execute the arrest warrant.
"The government of the Sudan is obliged under international law to execute the warrant of arrest on its territory," he told reporters in The Hague after the court announced a warrant for Bashir's arrest on seven counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
"It will be in two months or in two years but he (Bashir) will face justice."