November 18, 2009 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir received an invitation from Denmark to attend the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP15), the Copenhagen Post reported today.

- Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir attends the opening session of the fourth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on November 8, 2009 (AFP)
A Danish official suggested that Bashir, who is a target of an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court (ICC), has been invited in his capacity as a head of state.
Thomas Winkler, head of the Danish Foreign Ministry’s legal department, said that as the climate conference is a UN event, Denmark is obliged to invite all heads of government without exception.
“But at the same time we would point out that Denmark is also obliged to comply with the Security Council’s resolution regarding Darfur,” Winkler was quoted by the Copenhagen Post.
Denmark is a state party to the founding treaty of the ICC and is obliged to arrest Bashir if he visits.
However, it is unlikely that Bashir would venture into Denmark. He has so far avoided travelling to countries that are members of the ICC.
Today the ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said that Bashir has been increasingly marginalized since being indicted.
“Even his planned trip in November to a non-state party, Turkey, was cancelled,” Ocampo told the Assembly of States Parties to the ICC.
“The process of marginalization is in process,” he said.
Ocampo said arresting a serving head of state “requires a process of marginalization both at the national and international levels”.
He cited the case of former Yugoslav strongman Slobodan Milosevic, who was surrendered to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia by his own state “after a process of marginalization”. Milosevic died mid-trial.
(ST)









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