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Rwanda declines to meet ICTR prosecutor

    NAIROBI

    Rwandan officials have said they will not meet the new chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Carla del Ponte, who announced her intention to visit the country this month. Associated Press quoted Justice Minister Jean de Dieu Mucyo as saying the country was not ready to welcome her because of the ICTR’s decision to free genocide suspect, Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza. In a letter to the tribunal, Mucyo reportedly said the prosecutor would not be welcome unless the tribunal reversed its decision.

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