Hezbollah on Tuesday submitted data implicating the Israeli enemy in the murder of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri to the Lebanese government as expected.
In a statement released by Hezbollah media relations, the Resistance party announced that Hezbollah official Wafiq Safa gave Lebanese Prosecutor General Said Mirza the data requested by the prosecutor of the UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon in accordance with a request made by Prime Minister Saad Hariri following a meeting that joined him with Hezbollah Secretary General's political assistant Hajj Hussein Khalil.
The statement stressed that Hezbollah is not concerned with the international investigation despite the move, stressing that Hezbollah stance towards the investigations remains unchanged.
Earlier, Hezbollah spokesman Ibrahim Moussawi confirmed to AFP that his party had submitted "documents" to Lebanon's judiciary after a meeting between Hezbollah officials and Prime Minister Saad Hariri, son of the slain ex-premier. He did not give further details on the documents.
The meeting between Hariri and Khalil was held on Sunday night. The talks were attended by the prime minister's advisor Mustafa Nasser and head of his office Nader Hariri. According to Lebanese daily As-Safir, the two sides wanted to keep the meeting away from media spotlight. However, As-Safir quoted Hariri circles as saying that the talks were "positive and very beneficial."
Bellemare last week called on Lebanese authorities to submit all material related to the murder in the possession of Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah, who directly accused the Israeli enemy of standing behind the crime.
The request came days after Sayyed Nasrallah presented evidence against Israel, including several clips of aerial views of several areas in Lebanon which were intercepted from unmanned Israeli surveillance drones. The clips included footage of the site of the Hariri assassination in west Beirut, shot several years before the murder.
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