Just hours after being indicted for war crimes, Liberia's President Charles Taylor has said that he might step aside if it would bring peace to his war-ravaged West African country.
He was attending the opening ceremony of a Liberian peace summit in Ghana when the indictment was announced by a UN-backed special war crimes court.
Prosecutors called on Ghana to arrest the Liberian President, but they refused, saying they had not received a formal request to extradite him. He flew home late yesterday evening.
Speaking in Monrovia today, President Taylor said that an abortive bid had been made to oust him while he was in Ghana for the talks, aimed at ending a four-year war in Liberia.
