UN/ OCAMPO

When asked whether the WikiLeaks documents would be admissible in court, ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo says that "I don't think any judge will take this as evidence in court." UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:19
• Production Date: 7 December 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT - ICC
• Subject Topical: INTERNATIONAL LAW; CRIMES; CRIMINAL JUSTICE
• MAMS Id: U101207f

Description

STORY: UN/ OCAMPO
TRT: 2.19
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 7 DECEMBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY

Shotlist

RECENT 2010, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations HQ

7 DECEMBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, Luis Moreno Ocampo taking his seat at the press conference
3. Cutaway, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Luis Moreno Ocampo, Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC):
“Republic of Korea is a state party. So any crime committed in the territory of Korea could be under jurisdiction of the court as war crime or crimes against humanity, or genocide. Then we received no official communication; Korean citizens sent to us communications, students sent to us communications, they know about the existence of the court and they send us communications saying where to intervene. I have the duty to receive them and to asses if the court should intervene or not. So let me be very clear, I’m not sure I’m not sure if there will be an investigation open. That’s the goal of this phase, and just to collect information to understand what happened. So I have to understand the alleged crimes, I have to check if according with the law are these ear crimes or not. I have to understand if this happened in the territory of Republic of Korea. I have to understand of Korea is conducting national proceedings and after that I have to make a decision.”
5. Cutaway, photographer
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Luis Moreno Ocampo, Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC):
“I have to prove that the documents are legitimate documents. So probably not evidence no. Its good for you as a journalist to discuss the issue. I can analyze the issue but evidence in court? I don’t think any judge will take this as evidence in court.”
7. Cutaway, journalist
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Luis Moreno Ocampo, Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC):
“Next year we’ll evaluate, because there are ongoing crimes there (Darfur), the genocides continue. Because the genocide is not just killing people with bullets or machetes; what happens in the camps according to the judges is genocide 6B, means body and mental harm. So the fear of the people in the camps is such that accounts as genocide. And the rapes the ongoing rape campaign is a genocide. And on this end because the camps are ongoing we are evaluating the need to do additional investigations. But we’ll do this in March, May we’ll start to evaluate that. Not now.”
9. Cutaway, journalists
10. Wide shot, Moreno Ocampo leaves journalists behind

Storyline

The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) briefed journalists on the sides of the “Ninth Session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Talking about the democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, Luis Moreno Ocampo said that because the Republic of Korea was a state party to the Rome Statute, so any crime committed in the territory of Korea could be under jurisdiction of the court as war crime or crimes against humanity, or genocide. Ocampo said that the ICC had not received any official communication from Korea, only from Korean citizens, “students sent to us communications, they know about the existence of the court and they send us communications saying where to intervene”. Ocampo said, and added that he had “the duty” to receive them and to asses if the court should intervene or not. “So let me be very clear. I’m not sure I’m not sure if there will be an investigation open”, Ocampo stressed.

Asked whether the United States cable documents leaked to the media through wikileaks could be used as evidence in any court Ocampo said that first he would have to prove that the documents were legitimate documents, and added that he didn’t think any judge would take them as evidence in any court.

Commenting on the situation in Darfur Ocampo said in the latest report to the Security Council he said that the court would do an evaluation next year. He added that the genocides continued in the camps. Ocampo said that what happened in the camps -according to the judges- was classified as “genocide 6B” which included “body and mental harm”. Ocampo added that because the camps were ongoing the ICC was evaluating the need to do additional investigations.