The 15-member Security Council was split seven members, including Russia and China, voted for a draft resolution to approve the move, while eight members, including France, the US and Britain, abstained
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Speaking at an audience with Song, Jonathan said, however, that while Nigeria still maintains its endorsement and commitment to the guiding principles and objectives of the ICC, it wanted urgent action to address the current concerns of African leaders over the operations of the court
Addressing the participants at the end of the 15th Extraordinary Summit of the AU, its Chairperson, Hailemariam Dessalegn, said this was in accordance with “national laws and international customary laws”
President Jonathan, therefore, enjoined his colleagues in the African Union to show solidarity with President Kenyatta and the people of Kenya
Opening the 15th Extraordinary session the Council in Addis Ababa, its Chairman and Ethiopia’s Foreign Minister, Tedros Adhanom, said the body was concerned about ICC’s failure to follow “certain laid down procedures in the application of justice on some African countries and Africans”
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court recently said there was reason to believe that crimes against humanity have been committed by the dreaded Islamist sect in Nigeria, Boko Haram
Nigeria declared a state of emergency on May 14 to fight an Islamic uprising by militants in the northeast who want to impose Islamic law across a country divided almost equally between the predominantly Muslim north and mainly Christian south
Al-Bashir, who was indicted by the ICC for alleged war crimes in Darfur, reportedly left Abuja on Tuesday morning after attending the Abuja + 12 AU Summit on HIV and AIDS
The group recalled that 13 Nigerian soldiers were killed in Sudan in 2008 and are yet to be compensated
Mr Kenyatta, who was elected in March, is due to be tried in July.
He denies the charges, which arise from accusations that he fuelled violence after disputed elections in 2007
Oritsejafor said the move is in addition to pressure being mounted on the Nigerian Government to classify Boko Haram as a terrorist organization
On Thursday the ICC unsealed an arrest warrant it had issued for Gbagbo in February of this year, on four counts of crimes against humanity during post-election violence in 2010 – murder, rape and other forms of sexual violence, and other inhumane acts and persecution