President of the Special
Tribunal for Lebanon Sir Judge David Baragwanath has announced that Prosecutor
Norman Farrell will visit Lebanon
While Baragwanath
refused to discuss the details of his talks with President Michel Suleiman and
Premier Najib Miqati, he said his visit to Beirut
The STL president also
said in remarks published in Beirut dailies on
Friday that he held talks with diplomats based in Beirut
“Twenty six countries
have contributed to the funding but there are 193 member states in the U.N. and
we want more of them to make contributions to the court’s budget,” Baragwanath said.
The court’s president
said that he also visited Beirut to meet with
every member of the STL’s office in Beirut
“I talked to them … to
improve their conditions if necessary and help them confront the challenges or
any problems they face,” he said.
Baragwanath stressed
that the STL is exerting strong efforts not to cause any delay in the
proceedings of the trials and the verdicts within a period of three years, the
time of the renewal of the court’s mandate.
The U.N. Security
Council extended the STL’s mandate for three years from March 1.
The tribunal was set up
by the 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 -- Salim Ayyash,
Mustafa Badreddine, Hussein Oneissi, and Assad Sabra -- have been charged for
the February 14, 2005 car bombing in Beirut that killed ex-Premier Rafik Hariri
and 22 others, including a suicide bomber.http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/35900
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