Syrian Action Plan on Hariri Tribunal toward U.N. Security Council
Syria has reportedly decided to move toward the U.N. Security Council to deal in advance with any development regarding the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.
The daily Al-Akhbar, which carried the report on Friday, quoted well-informed sources as saying Syria is seeking to "remind" the Security Council of its responsibilities toward the STL.
It said a Syrian team made of legal, security and diplomatic officials has been set up for that purpose.
The team, according to Al-Akhbar, has prepared a presentation to the Security Council aimed at urging the United Nations to "bear responsibility to prevent errors and hold all the perpetrators accountable."
The presentation also calls on the Security Council to "refute errors of the (U.N.) investigation commissions and settle the record straight on issues that require follow up in order to prevent recurrence of mistakes in any future phase of the work of the tribunal."
Syria, al-Akhbar went on, would ask the Security Council to initiate steps "that would commit it to force the tribunal not to ignore any fraud operation that has occurred, whether with interrogators who have worked in investigation commissions or figures with political links to the team that has filed a lawsuit and is involved in throwing accusations against Syria. "