ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Nigeria's foreign minister says the African Union will ask the United Nations Security Council to defer the indictment of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for a year.
Minister Ojo Maduekwe says the African Union will make the request, preventing action on the charges, to allow progress to be made in slow-moving negotiations to end the five-year-old conflict in Darfur.
International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo is seeking an arrest warrant for al-Bashir on charges of waging a campaign of genocide and rape in Darfur.
Maduekwe spoke on behalf of his colleagues after a meeting of the African Union's Peace and Security Council.
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Nigeria's foreign minister says the African Union will ask the United Nations Security Council to defer the indictment of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for a year.
Minister Ojo Maduekwe says the African Union will make the request, preventing action on the charges, to allow progress to be made in slow-moving negotiations to end the five-year-old conflict in Darfur.
International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo is seeking an arrest warrant for al-Bashir on charges of waging a campaign of genocide and rape in Darfur.
Maduekwe spoke on behalf of his colleagues after a meeting of the African Union's Peace and Security Council.
