By IRNA
Berlin : The German government will allocate one million US dollars for the special UN tribunal which is investigating the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, news reports said Thursday.
According to the German Foreign Ministry, the financial support for UN tribunal was to underscore Berlin’s comprehensive engagement for a judicial processing of political murders in Lebanon as well as the long-term stabilization of the Mideast Arab country.
Hariri and 22 others were killed in a powerful truck bombing in the Lebanese capital Beirut in February 2005.
The new special Lebanon tribunal could also try other political murders in Lebanon.
The Netherlands is to host a special court in The Hague to try the suspected killers of Hariri.
The head of the UN team investigating Hariri’s assassination, Serge Brammertz said he is probing at least 17 of such cases, some of them could also be linked to the Hariri killing.
The Hague already hosts the UN war-crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the International Criminal Court and other global tribunals.