Posted on March 29th, 2008 by Marian Houk
In advance of the Arab League Summit Meeting — which is being attended by very few heads of state or government — that opened Saturday in Damascus, the UN rushed through several steps in its preparation for the formation of the tribunal to judge those responsible for the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq [...]
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Filed under: Hariri Commission of Inquiry, International Tribunals, Lebanon, Syria, The Hague, UN Secretary-General
Posted on February 16th, 2008 by Marian Houk
After the apparent assassination of Imad Mughniyeh in Damascus this week, a journalist (Benny Avni of the NY Sun, as it happens) asked if the UN will investigate this death, too. Here is the exchange, from 14 February daily noon briefing at UNHQ/NY — after which an clarification is later issued:
“Question: As to [...]
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Posted on December 22nd, 2007 by Marian Houk
A spokesperson for UNSG BAN Ki-Moon announced that a headquarters agreement was signed on Friday to establish the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in the Netherlands.
The SG said, in the statement issued by the spokesperson, that “The Agreement will now be submitted to the Parliament of the Netherlands for ratification. In the meantime, the United Nations [...]
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Posted on November 17th, 2007 by Marian Houk
During his brief visit to Lebanon this week, the BBC reported, UNSG BAN Ki-moon “urged Lebanese MPs to elect a new president on time … [Otherwise] there are fears that the government could split into rival administrations if a candidate cannot be agreed.”
The BBC says that SG BAN held talks with politicians across the spectrum [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Hariri Commission of Inquiry, Lebanon, Middle East Peace Process
Posted on October 4th, 2007 by Marian Houk
As a general rule, that’s good — UN member states should uphold UN Security Council resolutions.
It’s what U.S. Secretary of State Condolezza Rice said, as she met the son of slain Lebanese politician Rafic Hariri at the State Department in Washington today.
Saad Hariri, head of the Future Block in the Lebanese Parliament, was asked by [...]
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Posted on August 25th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Was it for reasons of economy of scale that the UN decided to base the Hariri trial chambers in the Hague, in the Netherlands? That would put it near the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and the International Criminal Court — not to mention the venerable International Court of Justice? Only [...]
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Filed under: Hariri Commission of Inquiry, International Court of Justice - ICJ, International Law, International Tribunals, Lebanon
Posted on June 11th, 2007 by Marian Houk
UN SG BAN Ki-Moon has begun taking steps to set up a Special Tribunal for Lebanon, whose aim is to prosecute the murder by a car bombing on 14 February 2005 of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
The UN Security Council authorized this action in resolution 1757 of 3o May — in which it decided [...]
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Posted on June 4th, 2007 by Marian Houk
China Hand, meanwhile, has posted this perceptive piece on his/her China Matters blog:
“The Hariri Tribunal and the Approaching Lebanese Train Wreck - China Abstains and Gets out of the Way” — “The Security Council, by a vote of 10-0-5 (five abstentions by China, Russia, Indonesia, Qatar, and South Africa), authorized the imposition of a tribunal [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Hariri Commission of Inquiry, Lebanon
Posted on June 3rd, 2007 by Marian Houk
Fighting has broken out at a second of the 12 Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon — at Ain el-Hilwe in southern Lebanon. What? They have Islamic militants there, too?
The Fatah al-Islam forces fighting against a Lebanese Army onslaught in Nahr Al-Bared camp in the north have refused to surrender.
The current Palestinian Minister of [...]
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Posted on May 4th, 2007 by Marian Houk
“I can simply say that, for now, from all the discussions that I had and from all the efforts that I attempted, I see no progress,†the UN Legal Counsel, Nicholas Michel (of Switzerland) told journalists at a press conference this week at UNHQ/NY. UNSG BAN Ki-Moon sent him to Beirut from [...]
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Filed under: Hariri Commission of Inquiry, Lebanon, UN Secretary-General, UN Security Council
