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Sudan's Bashir to visit China despite international arrest warrant

Published 30/08/2015, 15:36
© Reuters. Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir welcomes Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi at Khartoum Airport

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir is expected to travel to China on Monday for a four-day visit, the foreign ministry said, defying an international warrant for his arrest.

The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Bashir in 2009 and 2010, accusing him of masterminding genocide and other atrocities in his campaign to crush a revolt in the western Darfur region.

Members of the ICC are obliged to act on arrest warrants. China is not a member.

Bashir, who rejects the court's authority, has managed to travel within Africa and the Middle East.

In June, he was forced to flee South Africa, however, after a court ruled he should be banned from leaving pending the outcome of a hearing on his possible arrest.

Sudan's foreign ministry said Bashir would visit China for a commemoration of the end of World War II.

Bashir, who has ruled Sudan since a 1989 Islamist and army-backed coup, has not travelled outside the Middle East or Africa since 2011, when he also visited China.

© Reuters. Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir welcomes Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi at Khartoum Airport

He is due to travel to New York in September for the United Nations General Assembly, Sudan's deputy U.N. envoy said earlier this month.

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