Kenya stumbles as bid to reverse ICC's Rule 68 goes to ASP bureau

Cabinet Secretary for Defence Raychelle Omamo and her foreign affairs counterpart Amina Mohamed follow proceedings during the official opening of the fourteenth session of the Assembly of State Parties to the Rome Statute at The Hague.

THE HAGUE: The Kenyan delegation stumbled at the first hurdle after it failed to convince the majority of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Assembly of State Parties (ASP) to unanimously support the amendment of Rule 68 which allows the use of recanted evidence.

The Kenyan delegation, led by Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohammed, had earlier made a spirited effort to have the ASP meeting at The Hague approve its request to have the controversial rule reversed. But the plenary referred its argument to the 18-member ASP bureau comprised mostly Western countries.