 The UN inquiry into the assassination of Rafiq al-Hariri, the former Lebanese prime minister, could take years unless Syria speeds up cooperation with the investigation, the head of the probe has said.
| That's exactly what they want, so don't expect much in the way of cooperation... |
In response, Fayssal Mekdad, Syria's UN ambassador told the UN Security Council his country had not hindered the investigation, led by Detlev Mehlis, a German prosecutor.
"We are ready to do whatever the commission requests us to do," Mekdad said on Tuesday. He said his foreign minister, Farouk al-Shara, welcomed a meeting with Mehlis. The Syrian ambassador gave his government's first response to a 25-page report Mehlis delivered to the council on Monday. He said his team had found new evidence implicating Syria in the truck bomb murder of al-Hariri and 22 others on 14 February, 2005 in Beirut. After the meeting, Mekdad told reporters: "We believe that this investigation will lead to the clearance of Syria because it is in our interest to find the truth. Syria has nothing do with this heinous crime."
| "We're just not in a rush. Fresh evidence isn't the same as good evidence, y'know." |
|