Damascus Files Complaint with UN against Mehlis, Lehmann
17/09/2009 Damascus has filed a complaint with the United Nations against former chief investigator Detlev Mehlis and his aide Gerhard Lehmann for allegedly trying to frame Syria in the assassination case of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri, an official source in New York told Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar.
The complaint says Mehlis "fabricated, forged and created politicized information to hit at Syria and its reputation," according to the source.
The complaint added that the former head of the investigation commission and his aide "came up with wrong information aimed at involving Syria at any cost in that heinous crime."
The letter asked UN chief Ban Ki-moon and President of the Security Council, US ambassador Susan Rice, to launch an official investigation into the case.
A diplomat following the case said that Syria was planning to file the complaint after the indictment by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon of those involved in Hariri's assassination. However, delay in the trials prompted Damascus to move on with its decision in order to remind the UN that "politicization of justice won't go unaccounted for."
Al-Akhbar said Syria is planning to push for a discussion of the issue at a UN session most probably when the president of the STL delivers to the Security Council his bi-annual report on developments in the tribunal.
17/09/2009 Damascus has filed a complaint with the United Nations against former chief investigator Detlev Mehlis and his aide Gerhard Lehmann for allegedly trying to frame Syria in the assassination case of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri, an official source in New York told Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar.
The complaint says Mehlis "fabricated, forged and created politicized information to hit at Syria and its reputation," according to the source.
The complaint added that the former head of the investigation commission and his aide "came up with wrong information aimed at involving Syria at any cost in that heinous crime."
The letter asked UN chief Ban Ki-moon and President of the Security Council, US ambassador Susan Rice, to launch an official investigation into the case.
A diplomat following the case said that Syria was planning to file the complaint after the indictment by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon of those involved in Hariri's assassination. However, delay in the trials prompted Damascus to move on with its decision in order to remind the UN that "politicization of justice won't go unaccounted for."
Al-Akhbar said Syria is planning to push for a discussion of the issue at a UN session most probably when the president of the STL delivers to the Security Council his bi-annual report on developments in the tribunal.
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