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Hariri inquiry team 'to seek another year'
A UN team probing the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister will seek another year to continue its work, UN diplomats said.
- AP
- Published: 00:00 June 11, 2006
United Nations: A UN team probing the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister will seek another year to continue its work, UN diplomats said.
It is not expected to make any new revelations about who was responsible in a report due later on Saturday.
The report from Belgian prosecutor Serge Brammertz's investigators will stress that much work remains to get to the bottom of the February 14, 2005, bombing in Beirut that killed Rafik Hariri and 22 others, the diplomats said on Friday.
It will note that Syria has cooperated in some respects, they said.
The diplomats spoke on condition of anonymity because Brammertz's report has not been made public. It was expected to be delivered to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the Security Council on Saturday.
Earlier reports from the team investigating Hariri's death have implicated senior-level Syrian and Lebanese officials, and repeatedly accused Damascus of failing to cooperate.
The diplomats said that Brammertz's latest report will view Syria's more recent cooperation more favourably, mostly because Syrian President Bashar Assad finally agreed to be interviewed by Brammertz after twice declining. That happened on April 25.
Brammertz was expected to brief the UN Security Council on his report on Wednesday, a day before the current mandate of his commission expires.
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