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Sudan's Bashir visits Eritrea despite ICC warrant
Mon Mar 23, 2009 11:28am EDT
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's president briefly visited Eritrea on Monday on his first foreign trip since he was indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes in Darfur.
President Omar Hassan al-Bashir risks arrest when he leaves Sudan after The Hague-based court issued a warrant for him this month on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Bashir met Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki before returning on the same day to Sudan.
Eritrean Information Minister Ali Abdu Ahmed told Reuters the leaders had discussed relations between the countries, and that Eritrea was unconcerned by the arrest warrant for Bashir.
"Why should we worry about the ICC issue?" he said.
On Sunday, Sudanese state media said local Islamic scholars had advised the president not to travel to an Arab summit in Qatar at the end of March.
"This looks like a symbolic act -- to show he can do it. It is not that significant in itself," said Fouad Hikmat, an analyst for the Nairobi-based International Crisis Group.
"He is just crossing one of his country's own borders, visiting a neighbor who doesn't really have dealings with the international community," he said.
"The real question is whether he will be able to cross international air space to visit Qatar."
The trip was kept firmly under wraps in Sudan. State media, which normally covers the president's every move, did not mention it throughout the morning and early afternoon.
Mutrif Siddig, under-secretary at the Sudanese foreign ministry, said Bashir had accepted an invitation from Eritrea's government to visit the country.
"If we felt there was a risk we would not have allowed him to travel. But we felt that he was safe," Siddig said.
"Whenever this situation comes up again (travel abroad), we will evaluate the situation on a case-by-case basis."
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Presidential assistant Nafie Ali Nafie told reporters gathered at Khartoum's airport for Bashir's return that the president would visit other African countries, but did not give details. Continued...
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