BEIJING, March 5 (Reuters) - China on Thursday urged the U.N. Security Council to suspend the the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant pursuing Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir over suspected war crimes in Darfur. A statement on the Chinese Foreign Ministry's website (www.fmprc.gov.cn) said Beijing hoped that the U.N. Security Council would heed calls from African and Arab countries to suspend the case against Bashir. "We hope that the Security Council will...request that the International Criminal Court suspend trying this case," the Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said in the statement.
A woman holds a poster of Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir during a demonstration in Khartoum, against the International Criminal Court (ICC) for issuing an arrest warrant for Bashir March 4, ...
