Some people misled the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) investigation into the 2005 assassination of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri and thereby damaged Syrian-Lebanese relations and “politicized the assassination,” PM Saad Hariri said in an interview published in As-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper on Monday.
He also said, “We have evaluated the mistakes that happened on our side with Syria, which harmed the Syrian people and the relationship between the two countries,” adding that “at a certain stage we accused Syria of assassinating [former] PM Rafik Hariri, and this was a political accusation.”
Hariri said that he did not want to talk much about the STL, but “I will just say that the tribunal has its course, which has no relation to political accusations that were hasty.”
The cabinet delegated Justice Minister Ibrahim Najjar on August 18 to follow up on the issue of witnesses who gave false testimonies to the STL.
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