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GENEVA, Apr 13 2021 (IPS) - Three recent developments bring about again the reasoning on the dire need to immediately reform the United Nations (UN) and avoid its predictable slide to redundancy.
First, the tragic killing near Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) of Italian Ambassador Mr. Luca Attanasio on 22 February 2021 engendered a shock within the diplomatic community. Unfortunately, the assassination of top envoys and diplomats has regularly occurred for a long time.
The emissaries of Xerxes the Great, the fourth Achaemenid Emperor of Persia, were killed by Leonidas I, the King of Sparta, in 481 BC. More recently, Mr. Richard Sykes, Ambassador of the United Kingdom in the Netherlands, was gunned down by a terrorist organization on 22 March 1979.
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The federal government yesterday called for a transparent and all inclusive process, devoid of any sentiment in the selection of the Prosecutor and Judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, said this is necessary in order to select only the best and the most qualified candidates for the coveted positions.
He spoke while delivering Nigeriaâs Country statement at the 19th session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, at Hague, Netherlands.
âNigeria wishes to reiterate the need not to compromise the issue of high moral character of candidates seeking elective offices within the court system as that is the only way the credibility of the Court can be sustained,â a statement from his media aide, Dr Umar Gwandu said.