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U.S. Envoy to UN Says Funds are on Hand to Launch Hariri Court

By The Daily Star

posted on 03/12/08

Washington’s ambassador to the United Nations says the world body has secured enough donations and pledges to establish and operate the Special Tribunal for Lebanon to try suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Donors have handed more than $28.7 million and pledged another $21.3 million for the tribunal, envoy Zalmay Khalilzad said ahead of a UN Security Council session late Monday night in New York.

UN officials refused to comment on Khalilzad’s information, although UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had said in a February 13 statement that he had had "indications" the UN would receive enough contributions to cover the tribunal’s first 12 months of operations. … The UN commission investigating Hariri’s assassination and others will submit its next report to the UN on March 27.

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