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UN in African
Declaration US
Wanted More
“Accountability,”
EU
Calls It ICC
UNITED
NATIONS, April
26 -- On the
African
political
declaration in
the UN
General
Assembly on
Friday, the
United States
offered
support, and
then
criticism.
Ambassador
Jeffrey
DeLaurentis
said it didn't
have
enough on
accountability,
and shouldn't
have spoken of
Security
Council reform
as that is a
matter for the
“inter-governmental
negotiation.”
The
European Union
said much the
same, that the
process of
negotiating
the
declaration
was too fast,
and that the
result didn't
speak enough
(at least for
the EU) about
the
Responsibility
to Protect and
the
International
Criminal
Court.
(The
US said
“accountability" instead
of
ICC - since it
is not a
member of the
ICC.)
Inner
City Press has
learned that
the draft
declaration
was presented
to
the EU, Norway
and US, and
they proposed
inclusion of
Protection of
Civilians and
R2P, among
other things
-- but NOT the
International
Criminal Court
as such. But
their
proposals were
rejected, in
the
African Group.
The
EU threw in
another issue,
which Inner
City Press has
been hearing
about but only
off the
record: that
the EU wants
African
countries to
be more open
to non
governmental
organizations'
participation,
particularly
on human
trafficking.
Norway,
which
had indicated
it might
co-sponsor in
some way the
African
declaration,
ended up
speaking and
saying it
supported it.
In the
morning, an AU
representative
told Inner
City Press
that it would
be
an African
declaration,
facilitated by
South Sudan
and South
Africa and
introduced by
the Democratic
Republic of
Congo.
There's
a
lot of talk of
respect for
Africa, but
then always
the same
complaints.
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site.
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