Lebanese MP Saad Hariri said he would demand an international trial for those accused in the assassination of his father Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, following talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Arab League chief Amr Moussa. "We could not carry out the investigation and requested the help of the UN. Of course we will demand an international trial," the MP told reporters in Cairo on Wednesday. Hariri said the UN probe team leader's report on his father's murder, which is to be issued Thursday, "will be clear and we will find out who committed the crime."Hariri insisted "the perpetrators of the crime must be punished" but refused to accuse the Syrian regime of the murder. Hariri said that certain countries were trying to exploit his father's death for their own interests, particularly the fallout with Syria that many accused of having a hand in the murder. He further stressed the importance of establishing special relations between Lebanon and Syria. "We should not allow them to do so," he said, without naming any country. But he stressed that "we should demand justice and the truth."
Hariri's meeting with Mubarak lasted two-hours and focused on the much-awaited report and developments in Lebanon and Lebanese-Syrian relations since the murder. "Lebanon's stability is important to Egypt," stressed Hariri, and said that Egypt always supported Lebanon in all its stages. Hariri, who, according to his aides, is due to travel on to Saudi Arabia, also said that Mubarak told him that all Arabs wanted to know the truth about Hariri's murder.