Hariri assassination: Syria vows to cooperate with UN investigation committee

Published September 13th, 2005 - 07:00 GMT

Head of the International Investigation Committee on the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri, Detliv Mehlis, arrived in Damascus on Monday to start his mission.

 

"Syria will fully cooperate with the international investigation committee and offer it all possible facilitations, especially that Syria is very concerned in exposing the truth about the crime of the assassinating Hariri, since this will be in its interest," an informed source confirmed to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA).

 

Mehlis was received at the Syrian-Lebanese crossing point by the legal advisor at the Foreign Ministry Riyadh al-Dawoudi.

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