It was an unusual week at the International Criminal Court (ICC), with The Hague strangely silent while in New York the UN envoy for the Democratic Republic of Congo [DRC] revealed the ICC's first arrest warrant. Confusingly, the office of the prosecutor announced a press conference on Friday 7 October in The Hague, only to cancel it. On the same day, it was Kampala who finally made the official announcement. "The [ICC] investigation is complete and the court has taken a decision," the Ugandan defense minister told the news agency IRIN. He said that the ICC has issued arrest warrants against five leaders of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), including its chief, Joseph Kony, vice-commander Vincent Otti, and three lieutenants, Raska Lukwiya, Okot Odhiambo and Dominic Ongwen. "We have decided to cooperate with the court and we call upon the public to cooperate in the arrest of any of these named individuals," the minister added. The arrest warrants have also been sent to the DRC and Sudanese governments, where the rebels are believed to be living. He confirmed that peace negotiations with the LRA would continue, even though the first five defendants to be indicted by the ICC will "not be treated the same as before the indictment". The government "will treat the other rebels as people we can hold talks with and who can benefit from the amnesty" . "