BEIRUT: The new president of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon is
to visit Beirut for the first time this week.
Judge Sir David Baragwanath will meet President Michel Sleiman,
as well as other Lebanese officials involved with the work of the tribunal,
according to a statement on the STL website. He will be accompanied by the
vice-president of the tribunal, Judge Ralph Riachy.
"I am honored to visit a country of such great cultural and
legal traditions", Baragwanath was quoted as saying in the statement.
"The tribunal's judges consider themselves not just international judges,
but also judges of Lebanon, applying the criminal law of Lebanon and respectful
of its sovereignty and its people. I am determined that the work of the
tribunal be fair and expeditious, with full respect of the rights of the
accused and the interests of the victims."
A New
Zealander, Baragwanath was elected president of the STL in early October,
following the resignation on the grounds of poor health of Judge Antonio
Cassese, who died of cancer later that month.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2011/Nov-22/154859-new-stl-president-to-visit-lebanon.ashx#axzz1eXbOrQJj
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