Deputy Prosecutor of the
International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia Norman Farrell will be
the next Special Tribunal for Lebanon Prosecutor, al-Arabiya reported on
Sunday.
Diplomatic sources told the New York
and United Nations Bureau Chief of al-Arabiya, Talal al-Haj, that only one name
has been sent to Prime Minister Najib Miqati for the vacant position of the STL
Prosecutor after Daniel Bellemare’s mandate comes to an end on March 1.
Farrell is a Canadian like
Bellemare.
An Nahar daily on Saturday quoted a
Western diplomatic source as saying that U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
recently handed over to the Lebanese government the names of three possible
replacements for Bellemare.
Appointing the STL Prosecutor is the
responsibility of the U.N. chief alone.
The Lebanese premier is informed but
the choice of a Prosecutor is the secretary general’s.
“Farrell was the Principal Legal
Officer in the ICTY’s Office of the Prosecutor, a post he held from 2005.
Previously, he was the Senior Appeals Counsel and Head of the Appeals Section
in the Office of the Prosecutor for both the International Criminal Tribunal
for Rwanda (ICTR) and the ICTY,” said al-Arabiya.
The STL was set up by the U.N.
Security Council in 2007 and has announced that it will put four Hizbullah
members on trial even though they have not yet been detained.
The four have been charged for the
Feb. 14, 2005 car bombing in Beirut that killed ex-Premier Rafik Hariri.
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