The United Nations has rejected a request from Iraqi leaders to train some 30 judges and prosecutors who would be trying former President Saddam Hussein, in part because Baghdad has the death penalty, a U.N. spokesman said on Friday.
The request was made to Carla del Ponte, chief prosecutor at the U.N. war crimes tribunal on the former Yugoslavia in the Hague, but U.N. Secretary-General Annan turned it down, spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
He said del Ponte and the court were under pressure to meet target dates to complete their work and that the United Nations had no mandate to help train Iraqi judges. Judicial assistance, however, was among the tasks the world body could undertake in Iraq in previous Security Council resolutions.
Dujarric also said the request was rejected because "serious doubts exist regarding the capability of the Iraqi special tribunal to meet relevant international standards."
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