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ITAR-TASS (RUSSIAN FEDERATION) Swiss authorities ban presentation of Del Ponte's book "Hunt, Me and War Criminals" in Milan 08.04.2008, 11.44 GENEVA, April 8 (Itar-Tass) - The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs Department has banned the presentation in Milan of Carla Del Ponte' s book "Hunt, Me and War Criminals". "Any public presentation of this work is incompatible with the author's status of Swiss ambassador," says the communique, which the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs had released in this connection. Del Ponte's book tells, in particular, about the obstructions she had to surmount "in her attempts to prosecute people guilty of the war crimes, committed during the armed conflicts on the Balkans in the nineties". Del Ponte was chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia from August 1999 to December 2007. After the expiration of her mandate, she was appointed in January 2008 to the post of ambassador of the Swiss Confederation in Argentina. "Carla Del Ponte's book on her work as Chief Prosecutor of the Hague Tribunal, contains statements, which are impermissible for a representative of the government of Switzerland," Spokesman for the Swiss Foreign Department Jean-Philippe Jeannerat stated. He did not indicate the exact passages in Del Ponte's book that had displeased Berne officials. Some local commentators believe they are those that contain "certain nuances" of her assessment of the situation on the Balkans in light of the fact that Switzerland had officially recognised the independence of Kosovo and Micheline Calmy-Ray, the head of the Swiss Foreign Service, had taken part last week in the official opening of a Swiss embassy in Pristina.
