{"id":178275,"date":"2017-05-20T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/sudan-s-president-not-attending-saudi-summit\/"},"modified":"2017-05-20T19:15:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T19:15:00","slug":"sudan-s-president-not-attending-saudi-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudan-s-president-not-attending-saudi-summit","title":{"rendered":"Sudan\u2019s president not attending Saudi summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President Omar Al Bashir will not take part in the Islamic-American Summit in the Saudi capital Riyadh this weekend. Taha El Hussein, Minister of State at the Presidency, will represent him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the Sudanese News Agency (SUNA) announced that Al Bashir will not participate in the meeting, to be attended by US President Donald Trump, because of &ldquo;special reasons&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz invited the Sudanese president, together with more than 50 leaders of Muslim countries, to attend the Islamic-American summit on extremism and terrorism in Riyadh on 20-21 May.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-39978742\">US officials<\/a> had urged the country not to invite the president, indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2009 and 2010 for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in Darfur.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/us-embassy-reiterates-opposition-to-travel-by-sudan-s-president-al-bashir\">17 May<\/a>, the US Embassy in Khartoum reiterated Washington&rsquo;s opposition to international travel by any person subject to outstanding ICC arrest warrants.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Below a France24 video with an interview with Omer Ismail of the US Enough Project commenting on Al Bashir&rsquo;s cancellation.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"sws_supernormalaction\"><button on=\"tap:superwebshare-lightbox\" class=\"superwebshare_normal_button1 superwebshare-button-large superwebshare-button-square superwebshare_prompt superwebshare_button_svg\" style=\"color:#ffffff;background-color: #d52631;\" ><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"superwebshare-svg\"  fill=\"currentColor\" viewBox=\"0 0 1000 1000\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"0\"><path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"M789.86,323.67c91.79,0,164.25-72.46,164.25-164.25S881.64,0,789.86,0S625.6,72.46,625.6,164.25c0,4.83,0,14.49,0,24.15L306.76,371.98c-24.15-24.15-57.97-33.82-96.62-33.82c-91.79,0-164.25,72.46-164.25,164.25s72.46,164.25,164.25,164.25c38.65,0,72.46-14.49,96.62-33.82L625.6,821.26c0,9.66,0,14.49,0,19.32c0,86.96,72.46,159.42,159.42,159.42s159.42-72.46,159.42-159.42s-67.63-159.42-154.59-159.42c-33.82,0-67.63,9.66-96.62,33.82L374.4,526.57c0-9.66,0-19.32,0-24.15s0-14.49,0-24.15l318.84-188.41C717.39,314.01,751.21,323.67,789.86,323.67z\" \/><\/svg><span>Share article<\/span><\/button><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Omar Al Bashir will not take part in the Islamic-American Summit in the Saudi capital Riyadh this weekend. Taha El Hussein, Minister of State at the Presidency, will represent him.<br \/>\nOn Friday, the Sudanese News Agency (SUNA) announced that Al Bashir will not participate in the meeting, to be attended by US President Donald Trump, because of \u201cspecial reasons\u201d.<br \/>\nEarlier this month, Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz invited the Sudanese president, together with more than 50 leaders of Muslim countries, to attend the Islamic-American summit on extremism and terrorism in Riyadh on 20-21 May.<br \/>\nUS officials had urged the country not to invite the president, indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2009 and 2010 for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in Darfur.<br \/>\nIn a statement on 17 May,  the US Embassy in Khartoum reiterated Washington\u2019s opposition to international travel by any person subject to outstanding ICC arrest warrants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-involvement","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sudan\u2019s president not attending Saudi summit - Dabanga Radio TV Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudan-s-president-not-attending-saudi-summit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sudan\u2019s president not attending Saudi summit - Dabanga Radio TV Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Omar Al Bashir will not take part in the Islamic-American Summit in the Saudi capital Riyadh this weekend. 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