{"id":111153,"date":"2013-10-22T17:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T11:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=111153"},"modified":"2013-10-28T21:30:49","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T16:00:49","slug":"kenya-lobbying-other-african-states-to-boycott-chogm-colombo-report-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/kenya-lobbying-other-african-states-to-boycott-chogm-colombo-report-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Lobbying Other African States To Boycott CHOGM Colombo: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reports have surfaced in Kenya that the African country is engaged in quiet lobbying of other Commonwealth Member states on the continent to boycott the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=CHOGM&amp;x=15&amp;y=7\">Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting<\/a><\/span> in Colombo next month.<\/p>\n<p>A report in the Kenyan <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-star.co.ke\/news\/article-140351\/kenya-lobbies-commonwealth-summit-boycott\">Star newspaper<\/a><\/span> quotes diplomatic sources as saying that Kenya was pushing several other African leaders to boycott the Colombo summit over the Commonwealth\u2019s failure to take a decisive stance against the prosecution of President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto at the International Criminal Court.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_111154\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/kenya-lobbying-other-african-states-to-boycott-chogm-colombo-report-2\/kenya\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111154\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111154\" class=\"size-full wp-image-111154\" title=\"Kenya\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kenya.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-111154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Uhuru<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to the report, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Nigeria, South Africa and Zambia have been \u201croped into the plan and may miss out in the meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKenya is determined to force in a favorable and decisive action against the ICC trials against its president and deputy president. The Commonwealth miss would be part of this bigger agenda which the world must appreciate has been forced on Kenya by the court,\u201d the newspaper quoted a source as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The Kenyan Star said that another government source had confirmed: \u201cIt is almost a foregone conclusion by now that Kenya will not show up. And with it, East Africa and other African countries. By that time, the president is supposed to be at the ICC. The deputy president will be in charge here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Commonwealth meeting would also be taking place three days after the start of the Kenyan President Uhuru&#8217;s trial on November 12.<\/p>\n<p>While the Sri Lankan Government will have the satisfaction of knowing the Kenyan proposed boycott has nothing to do with its own rights record as in the case of Canada, any collective boycott by African states will be seen as a colossal failure of its new foreign policy to look to Africa and Latin America for solidarity. External Affairs Minister Prof. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=G.+L.+Peiris+&amp;x=16&amp;y=4\">G.L. Peiris<\/a><\/span> has consistently hailed the decision of the Government to pursue greater ties with African nations, because the support of the developing countries towards other developing countries, or South-South cooperation was more forthcoming at a juncture when Colombo is increasingly distancing itself from the Western, pro-Human Rights lobby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":111154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kenya Lobbying Other African States To Boycott CHOGM Colombo: Report - 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