Kenya has called upon the United Nations Security Council to for all International Criminal Court charges against Kenyan political leaders to be dropped.
Speaking after a closed-door meeting with the council, Kenya's UN ambassador Macharia Kamau said,
"We have asked that these proceedings be terminated as soon as possible".
"How that will be done, by whom that will be done is yet to be determined, but clearly the proceedings need to end because they are not consistent with peace and justice in our country."
"If the court itself were to decide to terminate these cases owing to the weak and the frail nature of the evidence, this in itself would be satisfactory."
However AFP reported one anonymous diplomat as saying,
"There was a very firm response from ICC member states and the US that they must take their case to the court".
Kenya nevertheless seemed to have the support of South Sudan, with their President Salva Kiir stating,
"We will sit together with our brothers and sisters in Kenya".
"It seems that this thing has been meant for African leaders, that they have to be humiliated...we never accept it."