&&النداء الأخير: للمسافر :عمر حسن أحمد البشير&&

Quote: Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir left for home unceremoniously on Thursday evening after his statement at the opening of the summit of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group in Accra, in which he lashed out at the International Criminal Court for filing war crime charges against him. He described the war crimes and genocide charges as "a politically motivated action in a legal and humanitarian cloak". Al-Bashir said the international legal institutions should not be used as weapons to score political points, adding that the action of the ICC undermined the peace process in his country. He again committed himself to the peace process, saying the government of national unity was involved in peace talks in the south, in Darfur and in the east. "With limited but appreciated support from the international community, the government was able to make a substantial progress in the implementation process, including reconstruction, recovery and development programmes in war affected regions," he said. Al-Bashir took many by surprise with his unceremonious departure, since he had scheduled a news conference for Friday. But sources said he was taking precaution since the ICC's warrant was hanging on his neck, although Ghana had no plans to carry out an arrest. He had been the ACP bloc president since December 2006 when Sudan hosted the fifth summit of the 79-member body, and has now handed over the presidency to Ghana's president John Agyekum Kufuor. In mid-July the ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo announced that he is seeking an arrest warrant for Al-Bashir. Moreno-Ocampo filed 10 charges - three counts of genocide, five of crimes against humanity and two of murder. It was only last week that judges started reviewing the case in a process that could possibly drag on to next year. This is the second foreign visit by Al-Bashir since the ICC indictment, after Turkey, and the first to an ICC-member country.