The Hague - Belgian prosecutor Serge Brammertz, who heads the UN probe into the 2005 murder of Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq Hariri, has resigned as deputy prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
The ICC said in a statement that Brammertz had submitted his resignation on June 14.
Brammertz will stay on as the head of the UN investigation into the Hariri assassination, the ICC added. Last week UN chief Ban Ki-moon announced he plans to extend Brammertz mandate, which expires this month, until December 2007.
Brammertz had been considered a possible successor for war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte of the UN court for the former Yugoslavia who steps down in September.
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The ICC is the world's first permanent war crimes court that started working in 2002. It is not a UN court but was set up by states party to the 1998 Rome statute. So far the ICC has opened official investigations into atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Sudan and the Central African Republic. - AFP
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