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[Published: Monday March 30 2009]

Sudan leader in Qatar for summit

Qatar, 30 March-(ANA)-Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has arrived in Qatar for an Arab summit due to discuss an indictment against him by the International Criminal Court (ICC).

He has already visited Egypt, Eritrea and Libya over the past week to drum up support from his neighbours.

Qatar has not signed the ICC charter, which obliges member states to arrest indictees on their territory, but clerics have urged Mr Bashir not to go.

Libya's leader earlier said the ICC was a "new form of world terrorism".

Muammar Gaddafi, who is also president of the African Union, spoke out against the ICC warrant on a visit to the organisation's headquarters in Ethiopia on Sunday.

Sudan's leader was accused by the ICC on 4 March of seven counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity in his country's Darfur region.(ANA)

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