Bissau – The president of the International Criminal Court said on Tuesday that he had urged Guinea-Bissau to become a member as proof of the unstable West African nation’s commitment to peace.
ICC President Piotr Hofmanski told reporters during a visit that he had come to request it to sign the Rome Statute, the court’s founding treaty.
“According to our conviction, joining the International Criminal Court system shows a country’s commitment to the rule of law, to peace and security,” he said, in the capital Bissau.
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Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo promised to consider the request, according to Hofmanski.
The former Portuguese colony of around two million people is notoriously unstable and has suffered four military coups since 1974, its most recent in 2012.
A failed coup attempt in February left 11 people dead.
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Source: AFP
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