Del Ponte book promotion vetoed
Switzerland's ambassador to Argentina, Carla Del Ponte, has been told by the Swiss foreign ministry she cannot promote a new book.
The former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague was asked to return to Buenos Aires before a scheduled presentation in Milan on Sunday.
The foreign ministry said there were statements in “The Hunt: Me and War Criminals”, written with New York Times reporter Chuck Sudetic, that were incompatible with Del Ponte’s status as an official government representative.
The book gives plenty of space to the problems the former prosecutor faced hunting suspected war criminals in the Balkans.
A certain number of claims concerning politicians in the former Yugoslavia have already caused an outcry according to media in Switzerland and a number of Balkan states.
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