President Saleh welcomes ICC ratification

SANA’A, Aug 16(Saba)- President Ali Abdullah Saleh met on Tuesday the visiting delegation of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court, headed by the general coordinator for the ICC William Pace. The ICC and the Sisters Arab Forum, in cooperation with the Ministry of Human Rights organized here on August 13-14 a consulting meeting over the coalition for the International Criminal Court. In the meeting, president Saleh listened to the results of the consulting meeting. Mr. Pace briefed also the programs of the ICC which aim at gathering efforts towards the ratification of the Rome Statute for the ICC. He said that 99 countries had ratified statute and that ICC adopted pressional programs to push other countries, particularly the Arab and Islamic countries, to ratify. “We are looking forward to have Yemen’s ratification on the ICC’s Rome Statute, as Yemen is one of the leading countries in the region which have good experience of democracy. President Saleh confirmed that Yemen welcomes the ratification of the court. AM/NS SABA