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According to paragraph 10 of that document, AU Member States, including Liberia, agreed not to cooperate with the ICC in relation to the arrest and surrender of President Omar Hassan Ahmad Al-Bashir of The Sudan. The decision of the AU in general and Liberia in particular not to cooperate with the ICC on this matter, in our opinion, undermines accountability in Africa and is seriously inconsistent with Liberia’s existing international treaty obligations as provided for in the Rome Statute which we acceded to in September 2004. Withdrawing support from an international justice process sends a bad signal for Liberia, especially when we will recall that international support for a similar indictment by the Special Court for Sierra Leone laid the basis for Charles Taylor’s exit and subsequent enhancement of the Accra talks, the fruit of which is the current state of peace. We believe that resisting this measure today is like breaking the proverbial bridge after crossing the river, as is cited in various Liberian parables. As a mark of our protest to this position by the AU and Liberia, we attach a media release issued on 30 July 2009 and a statement endorsed by more than 160 civil society organisations throughout Africa including many from Liberia. As a way of localizing this campaign, we accordingly call on the Liberian Government to review its decision at the AU meeting and unequivocally come out against cooperating with that AU decision. This will be in line with other countries like South Africa and Uganda which recently saw wisdom in reviewing their positions and have accordingly withdrawn their support for the AU decision We look forward to a positive response to our call. Yours faithfully, Liberia Coalition for the International Criminal Court (see list attached) Copy: 1. Minister of Foreign Affairs 2. Minister of Justice 3. 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