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AU leaders back collective strategy to quit ICC
Member states of the African Union are backing a collective strategy to quit the International Criminal Court (ICC) after a divisive debate at its annual heads of state summit in Addis Ababa.
At the summit, African leaders passed a resolution aimed at mass exit of the ICC with part of the resolution also providing that the AU would hold talks with the UN Security Council to push for the ICC to be reformed.
The “strategy of collective withdrawal” from the International Criminal Court (ICC) is not without reservations, an African Union official told newsmen on Wednesday after the summit.
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Three African states – South Africa, Gambia and Burundi – signalled last year their intention to quit what is the world’s first permanent global war crimes court.
The ICC, which is 15 years old this year, has only ever charged Africans, including the presidents of Kenya and Sudan, although it has procedures open at earlier stages dealing with crimes in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and South America.
“The leaders of AU member states endorsed the strategy of collective withdrawal, with reservations,” an AU official, who asked not be identified said.
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