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| South Africa may leave ICC over Bashir arrest row | |
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| South Africa has said it might leave the International Criminal Court (ICC) after a row over the court's attempt to have Sudan's president arrested there. | |
| Omar al-Bashir was allowed to attend an African Union summit in South Africa despite being wanted by the ICC on charges of genocide and war crimes. | |
| After a cabinet meeting, the government said it would review membership "for a number of reasons". | |
| But it stressed it took its international obligations "seriously". | |
| A South African court had ordered Mr Bashir to stay in the country while it ruled whether he could be arrested. The government said he enjoyed diplomatic immunity. | |
| Mr Bashir denies the ICC charges he committed atrocities in Sudan's troubled western Darfur region. | |
| South Africa had "to balance its obligations to the ICC with its obligations to the AU and individual states", the South African government tweeted. | |
| The country may consider withdrawing from the ICC as a "last resort", it added. | |
| Previously, the AU has urged member states not to cooperate with the ICC, accusing it of bias against Africa. |