WHY UHURU WILL NOT ATTENDING UN SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING

Kenya will for the first time not attend the United Nations General Assembly after President Uhuru Kenyatta cancelled a scheduled trip to New York to avert a constitutional crisis due to the ongoing cases at The Hague. A dispatch from State House last night also indicated president also summoned Kenya’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Macharia Kamau for further consultations.
The decision came hours after the envoy had, in a letter, known in diplomatic circles as note verbal, informed to the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon that Kenya would not be represented at the High Level Week of the Sixty Eighth Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
“Whereas very important multilateral and bilateral meetings had been planned for President Kenyatta during the week, including a speech to the General Assembly, we very much regret that he cannot be out of the country at the same time as the Deputy President,” read the diplomatic message. However, the letter noted the President and his deputy have cooperated fully with the ICC thus far. “The Deputy President presented himself to the Hague court of his own free will and has submitted himself to the jurisdiction of the court.
Kenya expects the ICC to show the same level of cooperation thus demonstrated with a state party,” it said. In the Note Verbal, Kenya in- formed the UN Secretary-General that the political space for continuous cooperation was rapidly being eroded and the country was weary that the dire consequences of these developments seemed to be lost on the ICC interlocutors.