By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
November 3 --
On the African
Union's draft
UN Security
Council
resolution to
defer the
International
Criminal
Court's Kenya
proceedings
one year,
Inner City
Press midday
on November 1
reported that
it would be
circulated
later on
Friday.
It was, past 7
pm on Friday,
as Inner City
Press tweeted
and added to
its first
story: 17
preambular
paragraphs and
four operative
paragraphs,
sponsored by
Morocco,
Rwanda and
Togo.
Now on
Sunday evening
BBC in The
Hague has
published, on
twitter,
photographs of
portions but
not all of the
resolution, as
well as of a
letter from
Fergal Gaynor,
counsel to
victims in
Kenya, urging
UN Security
Council
members to
vote against
the
resolution.
Inner
City Press
checked with
sponsors, who
confirmed that
the paragraphs
selectively
released are
accurate,
while telling
Inner City
Press they'll
raise the leak
by Western
opponents of
the draft at a
meeting now
scheduled for
November 5
(and on which
Inner City
Press will
report.)
What
is the
position, for
example, of
the United
States?
Ambassador
Samantha Power
declined to
comment as she
left the
closed door
meeting
between the
African Union
ministers and
the Security
Council on
October 31.
Inner
City Press
asked the US
Mission for
its position;
later on
October 31,
Ambassador
Power tweeted
that the ICC's
delay would
allow
consideration
of Botswana
proposed
amendments by
the Assembly
of State
Parties.
But that
doesn't
answer: what's
the US'
position on
the African
Union's
request for
the Security
Council to
grant a
deferral under
Article 16 of
the Rome
Statute of the
ICC? Inner
City Press has
asked.
Anonymous
quotes from
diplomats,
from a venue
which ran a
vacuous
profile of
Power, are not
enough. Watch
this site.
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