US protests attendance of Omar al-Bashir, a wanted fugitive of the International Criminal Court, at a meeting in Saudi Arabia where Trump will beThe US has protested against plans by the Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC), to attend a summit in Riyadh this weekend alongside Donald Trump. “I can confirm President Bashir will go ... to Saudi Arabia,” Sudan’s foreign minister Ibrahim Ghandour told reporters in Geneva on Wednesday, according to Agence France Presse. Anton said it was possible that Bashir could be going to Saudi Arabia but not attending the summit. The US embassy in Khartoum issued a statement saying that the US “has made its position with respect to Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir’s travel clear. The White House had not previously acknowledged the call, but Spicer claimed it had been purely for the purposes of “logistical and trip preparation”.

Source: The Guardian May 17, 2017 21:45 UTC