BEIRUT: Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) President David
Baragwanath met Monday with Prime Minister Najib Mikati, sources at the Grand
Serail told The Daily Star.
The meeting was an introductory one, the sources said, adding
that no statements were issued following the talks.
Baragwanath, who arrived in Lebanon Sunday, will be giving a
lecture titled “Lebanon and the internationalization of the judicial system” at
Sagesse University in Furn al-Shubbak at noon.
Baragwanath is scheduled to meet with several Lebanese officials
during his visit.
The STL unanimously re-elected Baragwanath earlier in March as
the court’s president.
Baragwanath was first elected head of the U.N.-backed court
after the late Judge Antonio Cassese stepped down due to health reasons in
October 2011.
The STL has indicted four Hezbollah members for involvement in
the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005.
The Lebanese authorities have failed to apprehend the suspects
and Hezbollah has refused to surrender them, prompting the court to decide to
try them in absentia.
Earlier this
month, the prosecution at the STL requested that its indictment be amended and
also that the charge of “criminal association”
be added. The latter request has been refused on procedural grounds.
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