U.N. to Get Report on Lebanon Slayings
Detlev Mehlis, the chief investigator in the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, said Friday that he would present his findings to the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday.
He added that it was up to the tribunal that would try any indicted suspects to determine whether the evidence was enough.
Mehlis, in an interim report in October, implicated senior Syrian security officials and their Lebanese allies in the Feb. 14 bombing that killed Hariri and 22 others near Beirut’s seafront.
The report prompted a unanimous Security Council resolution threatening Syria with unspecified action if it failed to cooperate with the investigation. The country has strongly denied any role in the slayings.
Mehlis also confirmed that he would step down at the end of his six-month mandate this month, but he said he would help the commission until his successor is named if the Security Council agrees next week to extend the inquiry.
Lebanon asked the United Nations this month to renew the commission’s mandate for six months beyond Dec. 15. The inquiry was officially launched in June.
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