Arab foreign ministers hold crisis talks on Sudan

Cairo: Algeria urged other Arab nations on Saturday to press the United Nations Security Council to prevent the International Criminal Court (ICC) from issuing an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al Bashir. The ICC's chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, has asked the ICC for a warrant for Bashir on suspicion of masterminding crimes against humanity in his country's troubled Darfur region. "What the prosecutor of the court has done is a dangerous precedent," Algerian Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci told his Arab counterparts, holding an emergency meeting in Cairo to discuss the ICC move against Bashir. "We have (to take) ... a strong stance in solidarity with our brothers in Sudan and move effectively with regional and international organisations and the ... states in the Security Council to immediately... [read full story]