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Rwandan officials meet Carla del Ponte

    NAIROBI

    Meanhile, Rwandan government officials have for the first time met Carla Del Ponte, the ICTR's Chief Prosecutor, in Kigali and admitted that the tribunal is making progress. "She is around meeting government officials and she will also meet our Vice-President (Paul Kagame). We are aware of the shortcomings of the tribunal, but they cannot be blamed on the Chief Prosecutor. She is certainly making progress," Gerald Gahima, the Rwandan
    Prosecutor-General, told IRIN on Thursday.

    Ponte was denied an audience by government officials when she travelled to Rwanda last year following the acquittal on a technicality of Jean Bosco Baryagwiza, a genocide suspect.

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