Accra, June 30, GNA – President John Agyekum Kufuor on Monday appealed to the United Nations Security Council to hold consultations with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to find means within which offenders in the Liberian conflict must be taken to task to secure ceasefire and peace. He said: “As we seek to use the rule of law to bring to book offenders against humanity, we should also take into account the sufferings of the larger community within which the miscreants operate.”
President Kufuor made the appeal when the 15-member UN Security Council Mission led by Mr Jeremy Greenstock, UK Ambassador, called on him at the Castle, Osu, before a closed-door meeting.
The Mission is on an eight-day tour of some West African states to hold discussions with government officials on troubled spots in the Sub-Region and how to end the instability.
They had already visited Guinea Bissau and Nigeria and would leave for Cote d’Ivoire.
President Kufuor said the announcement by the UN Special Prosecutor at the War Crimes Court in Sierra Leone for the arrest of the Liberian President Charles Taylor when the peace talks on Liberia were in progress in Accra at the same time was an unfortunate coincidence that nearly torpedoed the efforts of the ECOWAS Mediation Council.
“Without debasing the role of the Special Prosecutor, we all appreciate his role because due regard for due process of the law is now an article of faith within the Councils of the ECOWAS”, he added.
Source: GhanaWeb
