Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Friday he would send the U.N. legal chief to Lebanon next week to seek approval for an international tribunal to prosecute suspects in the assassination of a former prime minister.
The chief U.N. legal counsel will go to Lebanon seeking to break an impasse over an international court to try suspects in the murder of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Friday he was sending his top legal adviser on a high-stakes mission to Beirut to help Lebanon break the impasse on setting up an international court to try suspects in Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq Hariri's murder.
The bullet-scarred bus sat rusting in the spring rain, on display for all to see what triggered Lebanon's 15-year civil war.
Rival Druze gunmen clashed in a mountainous village east of Beirut on Friday, wounding two, security sources said on the 32nd anniversary of the start of Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war.
Lebanon marks the anniversary of its civil war this week, a conflict that began three decades ago under circumstances that, to some, are starkly reminiscent of the political divisions and sectarian violence seen today.
(RTTNews) - Friday, the U.N secretary general Ban Ki-moon said he would send the legal chief to Lebanon next week, to seek support for an international tribunal.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is sending his top legal adviser to Lebanon to try to break the stalemate preventing creation of a tribunal to try suspects in former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's assassination. VOA correspondent Peter Heinlein has details from U.N. headquarters in New York.
BEIRUT - The Palestine Liberation Organisation has adopted measures to “isolate” Fatah Al Islam, an Islamist grouping blamed for deadly bombings in Lebanon, the PLO representative in Beirut said.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday he is dispatching the United Nations legal chief to Lebanon on Monday to help the Government and the country’s other political leaders to end their political impasse and set up a special tribunal as soon as possible to try the suspected killers of former prime minister Rafik Hariri.