Ocampo to meet Big Two this week
The ICC prosecutor is expected to go before the Pre-Trial Chamber judges any time from now and before mid-December when the court breaks for holiday. Photo/FILE
International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo is expected in Kenya on Wednesday.
Mr Moreno-Ocampo is scheduled to attend a two-day conference, “The Kenya National Dialogue and Reconciliation: Two Years on, Where Are We?” at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Upper Hill, Nairobi.
During his visit, sources say, Mr Moreno-Ocampo will also brief President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga on the progress made on the Kenyan case.
He will also use the opportunity to officially inform the government of his intention to seek summons against six Kenyans over post-election violence.
The conference is organised by the Panel of Eminent African Personalities chaired by Mr Kofi Annan, a former UN secretary-general.
Mr Annan mediated the Kenyan crisis whose lowest point was the violence triggered by disputed presidential results.
Bringing to justice those who played a key role in post-election violence will be one of the issues to be discussed at the meeting, the Nation has learnt.
Before that, a meeting of ICC member countries is to be held in Nairobi this week.
Mr Moreno-Ocampo’s office is in the process of finalising the Kenyan cases for presentation to the Pre-Trial Chamber, which will make a decision on whether to indict anyone over the violence.
The ICC prosecutor is expected to go before the Pre-Trial Chamber judges any time from now and before mid-December when the court breaks for holiday.
He will ask judges to be allowed to present his case in open court, meaning that chaos suspects and the cases against them could be unmasked before year-end.
The prosecutor had wanted to present the case in private, but given the circumstances surrounding witnesses and leakage of a confidential letter from the ICC, it is understood he will go for open submissions so that individuals accused of involvement are known.
The State Parties is the ICC’s top decision making organ and brings together all the 114 nations, which have signed the Rome Treaty.
Its meeting on Wednesday will discuss ICC’s role and the need for countries that have ratified it to cooperate.
A day after, the Kenya National Dialogue and Reconciliation conference, will sit for two days assessing the coalition government’s record nearly three years after it was formed.
