Lawyers for a key Rwandan genocide suspect have demanded that their client wants to meet with the former United Nations secretary-general Boutros Boutros-Ghali, according to reports reaching Dar es Salaam Tuesday.

Theoneste Bagosora, the man regarded by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda as the mastermind of the 1994 genocide, is to decide on whether to cite Boutros-Ghali as a witness after their meeting.

Bagosora's lead counsel Raphael Constant explained that the defense wants to get the point of view from the Boutros-Ghali who served as the UN chief then on what had happened at the United Nations Security Council regarding Rwanda between September 1993 and June 1994.

"We are in contact with him (Ghali)," said Constant, "In principle he is not against the idea of meeting with us, but as is the practice, we need to get the UN's green light."

The counsel has already written to the United Nations, reports said.

"We have officially written to the United Nations who demanded to know the exact reasons we wanted the meeting. We are in the process of doing so."

Source: Xinhua