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Genocide-indicted Bashir will be at Saudi summit with Trump – Sudan

17 May 2017, 5:26 pm Edit

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who has been charged with war crimes and genocide, will attend the same summit in Saudi Arabia as US President Donald Trump, Khartoum’s top diplomat says.

Omar al-Bashir, center, president of Sudan, stands between Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, left, and Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa at the annual Arab League summit on Wednesday, March 29, 2017 held this year on the Dead Sea in Jordan. (AP Photo/ Raad Adayleh)
Omar al-Bashir, center, president of Sudan, stands between Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, left, and Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa at the annual Arab League summit on Wednesday, March 29, 2017, held this year on the Dead Sea in Jordan. (AP Photo/ Raad Adayleh)

“I can confirm president Bashir will go … to Saudi Arabia,” Sudan’s foreign minister Ibrahim Ghandour tells reporters in Geneva. “We look forward (to) normalization of our relations with the US.”

— AFP

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