March 21, 2009 (KHARTOUM) — The Sudanese government will send high level delegations to countries which sit on the UN Security Council (UNSC), according to a newspaper report.

- The United Nations Security Council (Getty Images)
The London based Al-Sharq Al-Awsat that the first delegation headed by Sudanese 2nd Vice President will travel to Uganda, Libya and Burkina Faso; second delegation headed by Sudanese presidential assistant Nafi Ali Nafi, presidential adviser Mustafa Ismail and intelligence director Salah Gosh to France and Britain; Third delegation headed by finance minister Awad Al-Jaz to China, Japan, Russia and Turkey; Fourth delegation headed by presidential adviser Ghazi Suleiman to Mexico, Venezuela and Brazil; Fifth delegation headed by presidential adviser Bona Malwal to Austria, Croatia and the Czech republic.
The UNSC this year is composed of the five permanent members — China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The non-permanent members are Austria, Burkina Faso, Costa Rica, Croatia, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Turkey, Uganda and Vietnam.
The diplomatic push is aimed at rallying support against decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue an arrest warrant for Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir earlier this month on war crimes committed in Darfur.
Presidential adviser Ismail said that conferences will be held in Western capital “to expose the practices of the ICC and its role as a tool for hegemony by world powers”.
Arab and African countries have failed to convince the UNSC to invoke Article 16 of the ICC statute which suspends prosecutions for a period of 12 months that can be renewed indefinitely.
Sudan lacks the required nine votes to secure such a resolution and some veto wielding members in the UNSC including US, UK and France have suggested that they will block any deferral attempts.
Yesterday Sudan heard criticism from most UNSC over its decision to expel 13 relief organizations from Darfur.
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