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Quote: Sudan presidential assistant voices support to ICC role in Darfur Friday 30 November 2007 05:00. Printer-Friendly version Comments... By Wasil Ali November 29, 2007 (KHARTOUM) — The leader of the only Darfur rebel faction to sign the Darfur peace agreement (DPA) last year, said that he is supports the work of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the war ravaged region. Minni Arcua MinawiMinni Arcua Minawi, leader of Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) and senior assistant to Sudanese president told Sudan Tribune by phone from Khartoum that the position of his movement never changed on the ICC. “Any one who commits a crime should be prosecuted. It is a matter of justice” he said. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, prosecutor of the ICC, will submit his semi-annual to the UN Security Council (UNSC). Ocampo is expected to notify the council that Sudan is not cooperating per resolution 1593 referring the situation in Darfur to the ICC. The judges of the ICC issued their first arrest warrants for suspects accused of war crimes in Sudan’s Darfur region in early May. The warrants were issued for Ahmed Haroun, state minister for humanitarian affairs, and militia commander Ali Kushayb. Sudan has so far rejected handing over the two suspects. Minawi said that despite being a member of the Sudanese government and an aide to Sudanese president Omar Hassan Al-Bashir, he is “on the opposite end of the spectrum” with regards of the issue of Darfur war crimes. Sources in the SLM faction told Sudan Tribune that Al-Bashir has privately urged Minawi to support his rejection of the ICC as a member of the government, but the ex-rebel leader turned down his request. Minawi said that prosecuting Darfur war criminals before national courts “is too late because ICC is already handling matter. The train has already left the station”. In response to allegations by Khartoum that the ICC is an impartial body, the senior presidential assistant said that “there is simply no evidence to support discrediting the court”. The SLM leader said he has no contacts Haroun who is also a member of Sudan’s cabinet. In May 2006, the SLM signed the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) with the Sudanese government and its head Mini Arkou Minawi was appointed as the senior assistant of the Sudanese president in August. Sudan has not ratified the Rome Statue, but the UN Security Council triggered the provisions under the Statue that enables it to refer situations in non-State parties to the world court if it deems that it is a threat to international peace and security. (ST)