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OTP Situations and Cases
On 8 September 2011, the Prosecutor requested
INTERPOL to issue a Red Notice to arrest Gaddafi,
Saif Al-Islam and Al-Senussi. 946 The Red Notice
seeks the arrest or provisional arrest of wanted
persons with a view to extradition based on an
arrest warrant or a court decision, but is not an
international arrest warrant itself. INTERPOL
will assist national police forces in identifying
or locating the persons wanted by national
jurisdictions or international criminal tribunals
with a view to their arrest and extradition. These
Red Notices allow the warrant to be circulated
worldwide with the request that the wanted
person be arrested with a view to extradition. 947
On 15 September 2011, British Prime Minister
David Cameron and French President Nicolas
Sarkozy visited Libya and met with NTC leaders
in Tripoli. 948 Mustafa Abdul Jalil, Chief of the NTC,
thanked Cameron and Sarkozy for the political,
economic and military support provided.
Cameron and Sarkozy reaffirmed that they will
support the NTC to establish a democratic state
and to find Gaddafi. Many UN countries have
recognised NTC as the legitimate authority of
Libya. 949
946 ‘ICC Prosecutor seeks Interpol red notice warrant
for Gaddafi’, Reuters Africa, 8 September 2011,
available at , last visited on 27 October
2011.
947 ‘Notices’, INTERPOL, available at , last visited on 27
October 2011.
948 ‘Libya conflict: Cameron and Sarkozy visit Tripoli’, BBC
News, 15 September 2011, available at , last visited on 27
October 2011.
949 ‘Factbox: Countries that recognize Libya’s NTC’, Reuters,
23 September 2011, available at ,
last visited on 27 October
2011; ’77 countries have so far recognized Libya’s NTC’,
YaLibnan, 2 September 2011, available at ,
last visited on 27 October 2011.
Cooperation
Despite the outstanding ICC Arrest Warrants
issued against them, Saif Al-Islam and Al-
Senussi remain at large at the time of writing
this <strong>Report</strong>. Under the Gaddafi Regime, Libya
had not become a State Party to the Rome
Statute, and the Gaddafi Regime refused to
accept the ICC’s decision to issue Arrest Warrants
against Gaddafi, Saif Al-Islam and Al-Senussi,
adding further that Gaddafi and his son Saif
Al-Islam did not hold official positions in Libya
and therefore ‘have no connection to the
claims of the ICC against them’. 950 In contrast
to the Gaddafi Regime’s position, the NTC had
expressed a positive response to the issuance
of the Arrest Warrants, and was, in particular
‘extremely happy that the whole world has
united in prosecuting Gaddafi for the crimes he
has committed’. 951 It was also pleased to see that
Gaddafi was finally regarded as a war criminal. 952
The NTC had promised to cooperate with the ICC
and to assemble a special commando unit to
arrest Gaddafi. 953
The AU, during the 17th AU Summit, held in
Equatorial Guinea from 23 June 2011 to 1 July
2011, objected to the issuance of the Arrest
Warrants, and adopted a declaration calling
upon its member states not to cooperate in
the execution of the Arrest Warrants against
950 ‘Libya rejects UCC arrest warrant for Muammar Gaddafi’,
BBC News, 27 June 2011, available at , last visited on 27
October 2011.
951 ‘Int’l court issues arrest warrant for Gaddafi’, Reuters,
27 June 2011, available at , last
visited on 27 October 2011.
952 ‘Int’l court issues arrest warrant for Gaddafi’, Reuters,
27 June 2011, available at , last
visited on 277 October 2011.
953 ‘A Political Court: The ICC and Libyan War Crimes’, Hudson
New York, 8 August 2011, available at , last visited
on 27 October 2011.
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