Ban Sets March Launch for International Tribunal
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will launch in March the long-awaited Special Tribunal for Lebanon to try suspects in the 2005 assassination of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri and related crimes.
Pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat said Wednesday that an official U.N. announcement will come later today.
It said the Security Council was preparing a Resolution calling for the extension of the U.N. investigation commission”s mandate for a further three months under the term "technical extension."
It is expected that Daniel Bellemare, who heads the U.N. commission into the Hariri assassination, to hand in his periodical report beginning of December.
The Security Council is likely to debate Bellemare”s report mid-December.