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Hague Likely Host For Lebanon Trial; Case Involves 2005 Hariri Assassination
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August 18, 2007
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Responding to a U.N. request, the Netherlands is prepared to host
the trial of suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese
prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri, the Dutch Foreign Ministry said
Friday.
"I am working under the premise that the tribunal will be in The
Hague," Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen told Dutch radio.
"Obviously we have to sort out some practical matters first, like
financing and where possible convicts will go to serve their
sentences."
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon asked the Dutch government to
allow proceedings in the Netherlands out of concern that the trial
could destabilize Lebanon if it was held there.
In the past year, controversy over the trial has ...