Posted 22 hours ago Sunday, December 12th, 2010 at 11:55 am UTC
The Zambian government has announced it will not arrest Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir if he attends a regional summit there next week.
A government spokesman says Zambia will abide by the African Union's decision to ignore an International Criminal Court arrest warrant against Mr. Bashir on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The AU says the Sudanese president has not been convicted of any crimes and therefore should not be detained.
Zambia is a member state of the International Criminal Court and under its rules is obliged to arrest Mr. Bashir if he is in the country.
Mr. Bashir has not said publicly if he will attend next week's summit.
The Sudanese leader has already traveled to other ICC member states including Chad and Uganda and was not arrested
But, Mr. Bashir's expected presence at a meeting in Kenya recently attracted so much controversy the event was moved to Ethiopia.
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