Assad will not meet UN investigators
Cairo, 12 Jan. (AKI) - Syrian president Bashar al-Assad will not meet United Nations investigators probing the assassination of former Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri, Syria's information minister said on Thursday. The minister, Mehdi Dakhlallah, made the announcement in an interview with an Egyptian radio station.
On 2 January the UN commission of inquiry into the Beirut bomb attack that killed Hariri and 20 others on 14 February 2005 indicated it wanted to speak to Assad in the wake of remarks made by Syria's former vice-president Abd al-Halim Khaddam in which he implicated the Syrian leader in the killing.
The UN commission has implicated several top Syrian officials in Hariri's assassination and has repeatedly accused Damascus of failing to fully cooperate with the investigation.
The UN commission is due to resume its work this week under its new chief, Belgian magistrate Serge Brammertz.
On 2 January the UN commission of inquiry into the Beirut bomb attack that killed Hariri and 20 others on 14 February 2005 indicated it wanted to speak to Assad in the wake of remarks made by Syria's former vice-president Abd al-Halim Khaddam in which he implicated the Syrian leader in the killing.
The UN commission has implicated several top Syrian officials in Hariri's assassination and has repeatedly accused Damascus of failing to fully cooperate with the investigation.
The UN commission is due to resume its work this week under its new chief, Belgian magistrate Serge Brammertz.
posted by Marko at 1/12/2006 09:56:00 AM
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