UN meeting on Kenya postponed

Written By:Mary Daraja,    Posted: Thu, Mar 17, 2011

An informal meeting between the Kenyan delegation and the United Nations Security Council did not take place as scheduled.

Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka's press secretary Barsito Kaplich told KBC that the meeting had been postponed to another date. He said they were yet to confirm the new date for the meeting.

The meeting which had been scheduled to take place at 3am Kenyan time was meant to give the delegation a chance to explain Kenya's deferral case.

The delegation is detailed to tell the council that Kenya is seeking to postpone action by the ICC against the six Kenyans named as the suspects of the 2007/08 post election violence to allow for local trials through a national judicial mechanism.

Led by Macharia Kamau the Kenyan permanent representative to UN, the team will also brief the officials on reforms already underway in the country which indicates that Kenya is in a position to carry out credible local prosecutions.

They will base their argument on the promulgation of the new constitution which has created independence of institutions among them the Judiciary.