Kampala — President of the Assembly of State Parties to the International Criminal Court has insisted that Uganda must arrest Sudan President Omar al-Bashir should he visit the country during the AU summit due in Kampala in July.
In a statement released yesterday to media at the ongoing ICC Review Conference in Kampala, Mr Christian Wenaweser said since Uganda is a party to the Rome Statute, it has to fulfil its mandate as stipulated in the Statute.
"I'm looking forward to seeing a statement from the Ugandan government that is less equivocal than what we have seen over the past few days. What's important from our perspective is Uganda is a state party to the Rome Statute so it has an obligation to fully cooperate with the provisions of that statute and we would like to see a statement to that affect," Mr Wenaweser's statement reads in part.
It adds: "Certainly confusion has been created, I have been in contact with senior Ugandan officials and told them it was in their interest and the interest of this conference that they would make a statement that is clearer than what they have done so far, and in particular make reference to the fact that they are a state party to the ICC."
The statement comes at a time when Uganda backtracked on an earlier decision not to invite Mr Bashir to a summit in Kampala because he is wanted by the International Criminal Court. "President Bashir of Sudan was actually invited for the AU summit scheduled to take place in Kampala from the July 19 to July 29," said a statement from Uganda's ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The ministry said African heads of state have been invited, except those who were suspended from the AU for specific reasons.
"The Foreign Affairs ministry statement is the current government position. The Foreign Affairs statement takes precedence over mine," presidential spokesman Tamale Mirundi said. A presidency statement on Saturday evening had said: "President Yoweri Museveni has disclosed that his Sudanese counterpart General Omar Hassan Bashir has not been invited to attend the African Union Conference."
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This so-called 'international court' is a deceptive misnomer.
It is a EUROPEAN colonialist court.
And it's goal is to give evil europeans the delusion that they are in a position to rule on activities outside of Europe and over the whole planet.
Let's see this 'international court' go after the european mass murderers of hundreds of thousands of INNOCENT Iraqi children, women, old people, etc?
Africans have no business going along with this neo-colonialist nonsense.
And Africans have no business being 'arresting officers' for european megalomaniacal devils.
The arabs in Sudan needs to be kicked out.
However, Africans have no business involving themselves in the criminal colonialist fight. They are fighting to dominate and plunder Africa.
And Africans are interested in getting rid of BOTH sets of criminal invaders!
OMUGABE, YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. AFRICANS AND AFRICA NEED TO STUDY THESE EVIL EUROPEAN'S BEHAVIOURS, IDEAS AND CONTRADICTIONS VERY CAREFULLY. THEY MAIN THOUGHTS AS USUALL IS EXPLOITATION AND PLUNDER OF AFRICA RICH MINERIAL RESOURCES. THEY FEED ON US AND THEN TURN AROUND AND HUMULIATE US "AFRICANS AND AFRICA". WHAT A SYCOPATH BEHAVIOURS.