The 13th session of International Criminal Court’s Assembly of State Parties (ASP) begins in New York tomorrow on a foul note, after Kenya accused the secretariat of working in cahoots with NGOs to frustrate the country’s participation.
In a strongly worded diplomatic note seen by The Standard on Sunday, Kenya’s Permanent Mission to the UN, accuses a ‘cabal of conservative and non-reformist states that find institutional self-examination threatening and unfathomable’ of frustrating its course.