"The government of Botswana does not agree with this decision and wishes to reaffirm its position that as a state party to the Rome Statute on the International Criminal Court (ICC) it has treaty obligations to fully cooperate with the ICC in the arrest and transfer of the president of Sudan to the ICC," Foreign Minister Phandu Skelemani said in a statement.
The African Union decided on Friday at the summit held in Libya not to cooperate with a war crimes warrant against al-Bashir and again appealed to the United Nations to delay the case.
Skelemani said the ICC was established specifically to help end impunity for the perpetrators of the most serious crimes of concern to the international community by, for instance, prosecuting those suspected of committing genocide, crime against humanity and war crimes... More
