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Sudan's Bashir urges Arab support against warrant
Mon Mar 30, 2009 9:01am EDT
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DOHA (Reuters) - The appearance of Sudanese leader Omar Hassan al-Bashir at an Arab summit on Monday, flouting an international arrest warrant, overshadowed efforts to heal Arab rifts over how to handle Iran.
Bashir flew into the small Gulf Arab state on Sunday after visits to Egypt, Eritrea and Libya in the weeks since the International Criminal Court (ICC) indicted him on charges of masterminding war crimes in Darfur.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the summit on Monday, Bashir urged Arab leaders meeting in Doha to reject the indictment and accused Israel of backing rebels in Darfur.
"We appreciate your support and hope it will lead to strong and clear resolutions .... that reject this resolution and call for its cancellation," he said.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad called on the summit to express unequivocal support for Bashir.
"We are called upon today to reject the warrant categorically and to express absolute support for Sudan at this stage," he said. "What is happening to Sudan now is another chapter in the effort to weaken the Arabs ... and another stage in the effort to break up Sudan."
Arab states were quick to rally around Bashir last month. Some cited the absence of international measures against Israel over its three-week war on Gaza that killed 1,300 Palestinians. Arabs generally see a double-standard applied.
But after the demise of Saddam Hussein, international justice for Sudan's leader would be another cause for concern for Arab leaders accused by rights groups of repression.
Qatar, which hosts a key U.S. military base, said last week it had faced unspecified pressure not to receive Bashir but its prime minister flew to Khartoum to repeat the invitation.
Officials in Doha said Saudi Arabia had pressed the summit of 22 Arab League nations to offer strong support for Sudan.
Bashir adviser Mustafa Osman Ismail told reporters in Doha: "We expect this popular uprising of support for Sudan, not just in the Arab world, to be translated into a strong resolution that meets the hopes of the Arab street."
ARAB SPLITS
Qatar, a major natural gas power, has billed the summit as a chance for reconciliation among Arab states over a series of regional conflicts linked to non-Arab Shi'ite power Iran.
Arab governments have struggled to respond to Iran's political clout since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 brought long-oppressed Shi'ite Muslims to power there.
But Qatar, with ambitions to be a major regional powerbroker, has maintained close links with Iran, despite U.S. and Arab pressure to keep its distance from a country they suspect of seeking to develop nuclear weapons. Continued...
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