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| Lebanon to dispatch its highest ranking judge to UN |
| 2007-10-15 |
| Justice Minister Charles Rizk said Saturday that Lebanon would dispatch its highest ranking judge to New York follow up with U.N. officials for the formation of the international tribunal. Rizk said senior Judge Antoine Kheir, who heads the highest Judicial Council, would leave for New York over the weekend to "coordinate" with U.N. legal officials the formation of the tribunal that will try the suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and the related crimes. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced earlier in the week that he plans to appoint two judges and the UN legal chief to the panel that will select the judges and prosecutor for the international tribunal as per the UN Security Council resolution that authorized the establishment of the tribunal. |
| Posted by:Fred |