Bashir blasts UN ‘double standards’

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir yesterday called for reforming the UN Security Council, describing it as an organisation that had a “selective undemocratic constitution”.
Speaking to the Arab leaders at the Doha Summit, Bashir said that the Security Council did not know that the standards applied for the cause of justice should be the same, “but double standards have been applied and the criminals were pardoned”.
“The lack of justice creates grudge and feeds extremism,” he said.
Bashir accused Israel of training the “separatists of Darfur”, supporting them with weapons, hosting them in hotels and financing them. “Our Sudanese people know that and wash their hands off them,” he said.
Bashir, who is facing an ICC arrest warrant, said that some of the officials in Darfur were taken to the court and were executed in accordance with the law and fair trials. “That caused the wrath of the so-called human rights organisations.”
On his decision to suspend the activities of 13 international relief organisations out of a total 118, he said that they were costing the country 70% of its administrative spending but they were carrying out only 4.5% of the total humanitarian activities in Sudan.
The Sudanese president accused them of working beyond their mandates, and having secret agreements with the ICC and giving the International Criminal Court “false reports”.

Original Article from: Gulf Times