From: Tsegai Emmanuel (emmanuelt40@gmail.com)
Date: Sun May 23 2010 - 12:16:27 EDT
Eritrean Presient to attend Sudan’s Bashir inaugration
Sunday 23 May 2010.
May 23, 2010 (ASMARA) – Sudan has extended an invitation to the Eritrean
President Isayas Afewerki to attend the inauguration of the Sudanese
President Omer Hassan Al-Bashir who is elected last month in a first
multiparty election since a military coup d’Etat that brought him to power
in June 1989.
[image: Sudan's president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir (L) addresses a news
conference as his Eritrean counterpart Isaias Afwerki (R) looks on in
Asmara, March 23, 2009. (Reuters)]The invitation is delivered by Sudanese
minister of Justice Abdel Basit Sabdarat who was received by President
Afewerki in his office on Thursday 20 May, reported Shabait, the official
website of the Eritrean ministry of information.
Bashir has invited Chad’s Idriss deby and Mauritania’s Mohamed Ould Abdel
Aziz to attend the inauguration ceremony. The Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles
Zenawi, received a message from President Al- Bashir but it was not clear if
it contained an invitation to attend the 27 May ceremony.
The Sudanese president, who is indicted by the International Criminal Court
(ICC), won the election with 68% of the vote in the election presidential.
The opposition accused the ruling National Congress Party of manipulating
the election results.
"Governments that are committed to justice for atrocities committed in
Darfur should not attend the inauguration of President Omer Al-Bashir of
Sudan on May 27," called the US-based Human Rights Watch in a statement
issued this week.
Elise Keppler, International Justice Program senior counsel at Human Rights
Watch, said: "Al-Beshir is a fugitive from justice who should be arrested,
not feted."
Attending his inauguration "would send a terrible message to victims in
Darfur, and globally," she further said.
(ST)
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