Assembly/AU/Dec.547(XXIV) Page 3 a) to request all concerned to fast track consideration by the ASP Working Group on amendments and by Assembly of States Parties of the African proposals for amendments of the Rome Statute of the ICC; b) to operationalize the exercise of jurisdiction of the African Court of Justice and Human Rights to try international crimes by signing and ratifying the requisite protocols; and in this respect, to establish a Special Fund and convene a resource mobilization conference to raise funds to initiate and sustain the activities of the African Court on Human and Peoples Rights’ proposed Chambers of the International Criminal Law Section as envisaged in Article 19 bis of the Protocol on the Amendments to the Protocol on the Statute of the African Court of Justice and Human Rights; c) in accordance with its decisions particularly the African States Parties to the Rome Statute reserves the right to take any measures in order to preserve and safeguard peace, security and stability, as well as the dignity, sovereignty and integrity of the continent; d) pursuant to this decision and its previous decisions, to request the ICC to terminate or suspend the proceedings against Deputy President William Samoei Ruto of Kenya until the African concerns and proposals for amendments of the Rome Statute of the ICC are considered; e) in the same vein to request the suspension of proceedings against President Omar Al Bashir and to urge the UN Security Council to withdraw the referral case of the Sudan. 18. COMMENDS the Democratic Republic of Congo for complying with AU Decision for non-cooperation for the arrest and surrender of President Omar Al Bashir of the Republic of Sudan; 19. UNDERSCORES the need for all Member States to comply with the position of the Assembly of the Union regarding the warrants of arrest issued by the ICC against President Bashir of The Sudan pursuant to Article 23 (2) of the Constitutive Act and Article 98 of the Rome Statute of the ICC; 20. REQUESTS the Commission to present a progress report on the implementation of this decision at its 26th Ordinary Session in January 2016.

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