Saniora Returns to Beirut with Moscow's Support for International Tribunal

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Prime Minister Fouad Saniora has returned to Beirut from Moscow after winning a pledge from President Vladimir Putin that Russia supports a Special International Tribunal for Lebanon to try suspects in the 2005 assassination of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri.
The leading daily An Nahar said Sunday that Saniora asserted the government's commitment to the creation of an international tribunal.

"We will not bargain over the demands to form an international tribunal to find out the truth and bring the criminals to justice," the daily quoted Saniora as saying after arrival in Beirut Saturday.

Saniora told reporters after meeting Putin on Friday that the Russian president "expressed support for what has been done at the level of forming the international tribunal … I am satisfied with the level of the Russian leadership's support to Lebanon and its interest in stability in the region."

An Nahar on Saturday quoted sources in the delegation that accompanied Saniora to Moscow as saying Russia will not back off from its stand regarding the international tribunal which it had backed by voting in favor of its formation at the U.N. Security Council.


http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/Lebanon/CCF8BD46B55BE099C225724700274852?OpenDocument

[IndianaGreen]

1. Saniora should get himself tested for polonium-210

Since the Lebanese parliament has yet to agree to a tribunal, what is this tragic figure going to do?

How amazing the way the United States undercut the credibility of the Saniora government by blocking a ceasefire resolution in the UN to allow Israel to butcher thousands of Lebanese? Now we find the same players in America that sided against Lebanon, acting like Lebanon's best pals because they want to stick it to Syria.

Enough of these neocon games!

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2. Interesting isn't it, but the tribunal has already been created which is

why hizb. is protesting.