US : UN resolution to end Lebanon crises remains an option
The American representative to the United Nations Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad confirmed that the issue of issuing a new resolution by the Security Council to solve the crisis of presidential elections in Lebanon,
The American representative to the United Nations Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad confirmed that the issue of issuing a new resolution by the Security Council to solve the crisis of presidential elections in Lebanon,
remains one of the options under discussion between the States concerned over Lebanon “but we have not reached that point yet.”
During a meeting Friday with reporters at his headquarters in New York, he predicted that “indictments against those suspected of involvement in the assassination of the late Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, will be issued this year by the International Tribunal , but the actual trials will begin next year .”
He revealed that he had personally been involved in the work to expedite the establishment of the International Tribunal, pointing out that he met yesterday with officials coordinating the creating of the court in Holland . He was told that the building allocated for the court still needs some work , such as the construction of the court room and the room for the detention of the suspects .