On
ICC, Request
by AU Not Yet
Filed With
UNSC, Kenya PR
Tells ICP
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 18 --
Amid
conflicting
reports about
a request to
the UN
Security
Council to
defer the
International
Criminal
Court's
Kenya case or
cases, Inner
City Press on
Friday asked
Kenya's
Permanent
Representative
Macharia
Kamau
if the formal
request had
been filed.
No,
he told
exclusively
Inner City
Press, adding
that it not a
move by
Kenya, but by
the African
Union.
Inner
City Press
noted that
Ambassador
Kamau was
scheduled to
meet with
Deputy
Secretary
General Jan
Eliasson later
in the
morning. Yes,
Ambassador
Kamau replied,
but not about
the ICC, about
the other
issues back
home.
On
October
14, Inner
City Press asked
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
spokesperson
Martin
Nesikry:
Inner
City Press:
there's a
report that
says that the
Secretary-General
called
a number of
the Presidents
in attendance
[at the AU]
and told
them that he
would use his
position to
amend the Rome
Statute... it
also includes
the response
of one of the
Presidents,
Robert Mugabe
of
Zimbabwe,
saying that
the
Secretary-General
has no ability
to amend
the Rome
Statute. Is
it? Could we
get just a
factual
readout of who
he called in
connection
with that AU
summit?
Spokesperson
Nesirky:
I will check.
What we will
be able to
say: the
Secretary-General
certainly did
make a number
of telephone
calls, but
I don’t think
that we will
be going into
the details of
those
calls.
Inner
City Press:
What about
just WHO he
called?
Spokesperson
Nesirky:
I can tell you
that a number
of telephone
calls were
made,
and not just
by the
Secretary-General.
The
Free
UN Coalition
for Access
@FUNCA_info
believes that
as a matter of
transparency,
such calls by
the UN
Secretary
General should
be
disclosed.
Selectively
disclosing
some but not
all calls to
heads of
state turns
the UN
(further) into
a House of
Spin. Watch
this site.
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