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July 29, 2008 |
By Louis Charbonneau
UNITED NATIONS, July 28 (Reuters) - Libya and South Africa, trying to block the International Criminal Court from indicting Sudan's leader for genocide, want the U.N. Security Council to prevent such a move in a resolution extending the mandate of international peacekeepers in Darfur.
The U.N. Security Council was meeting on Monday to discuss the Libyan and South Africa proposals, which have the support of China and Russia, after the ICC's chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, asked the court's judges to issue a warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir's arrest.