Kenya's Justice minister Mutula Kilonzo will discuss the 2007 post-election violence with International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor on Friday.
In the context of post-election violence, 1,500 people were killed in a matter of weeks in December 2007. Opposition chief Raila Odinga accused President Mwai Kibaki of having stolen the vote.
The Kenya minister and the courts chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo will hold private consultations on alleged crimes committed.
Nairobi has yet to act on the recommendations of its own inquiry last October that a special tribunal be set up to try those thought responsible.
In June, former UN chief Kofi Annan called for Kenya to set up a special court to try suspects, or have them face justice before the ICC.
The same month, lobby group Amnesty International accused the government of having done nothing to end the impunity enjoyed by police and security forces for abuses they carried out during the post-electoral violence.
Read the official ICC press release
Watch a video from Kenya Red Cross about the effects of the post election violence:
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