By Matthew Russell Lee, Exclusive
UNITED NATIONS, October 24 – Former International Criminal Court Luis Moreno Ocampo was getting leaked French Mission to the UN documents, including HRW's heads-up to Ban Ki-moon's chief of staff Vijay Nambiar, from his former intimate Beatrice Le Fraper du Hellen, documents obtained by Inner City Press show. She forwarded him, calling it hypocritical and funny, her government's "demarche" to Washington, London and Berlin against Ibrahim Gambari. See here. She forwarded Ocampo Human Rights Watch's Philippe Bolopion's message to Nambiar from Ken Roth, saying HRW would sit on the letter to the benefit of the UN (whose Herve Ladsous was also sent a copy). See Tweeted photos, here. She sent Ocampo more - but first, let's see how France deals with this, and how the ICC which they say they love so much deals with it. While there's (much) more to say about the International Criminal Court including as illuminated by the recent reporting on Luis Moreno Ocampo, the UN is trying to steer clear of the issues, both saying the ICC is separate and more specifically in Kenya. On October 9 Inner City Press asked the UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric, UN transcript here: I actually wanted to ask you about what seems to be a connection to the UN Secretariat or at least it's OIOS (Office of Internal Oversight Services). You may have seen these leaked documents being analysed concerning former prosecutor Moreno… Luis Moreno Ocampo. And the reason I want to ask you is they touch on Kenya and the decision to try to have… give Mr. [Uhuru] Kenyatta a way out, but Fatou Bensouda has said it's being investigated by something called the IOM, not the other IOM but the Internal Oversight Mechanism, which, in its bylaws, cooperates in some way with OIOS. So, I wanted to know, is there any… it's always been said from here that there's no connection between the ICC and the UN Secretariat. OIOS - do they work with IOM? Spokesman: No, there is… listen… You have read those bylaws. I have not. There is no operational link between the UN and the ICC. Whether or not it… often the case that various internal oversight bodies have different parts of the system writ very large cooperate with each other, but OIOS does not have any jurisdictional oversight over the ICC. Inner City Press: I'm just wondering, I don't know if they'll answer if I ask them, so could you ask them whether OIOS is playing any role in the… in the… they've des… what's described as an investigation of these Moreno Ocampo…Spokesman: What I'm telling you is OIOS does not have any jurisdiction over the International Criminal Court. Inner City Press: "Then why are they--" Then cut off. We'll have more on this.
