Daily Star - Panel expected to select Hariri court judges by end of month, November 07, 2007
The selection panel to appoint judges for the international court to try suspects in the February 2005 assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri is expected to complete its mission by the end of November, An-Nahar newspaper reported Tuesday. The daily said UN chief Ban Ki-moon told the head of the Higher Judicial Council, Judge Antoine Kheir, who is in New York to supervise preparations for the establishment of the tribunal, that the UN was determined to have the court established, "for strictly human reasons rather than political ones." The selection panel for the court is composed of two judges currently sitting on or retired from an international tribunal, and the representative of the UN chief, and is tasked with recommending to Ban the names of the four Lebanese jurists and seven international ones who should serve on the court, as well as its chief prosecutor. Ban informed the Security Council in a letter in October his intention to appoint judges Mohammad Amin al-Mehdi from Egypt, Erik Mese from Norway and his adviser for legal affairs, Nicolas Michel, as members of the selection panel for the judges and prosecutor of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon covering Hariri's assassination. An-Nahar reported that Kheir held three rounds of meetings with Michel to discuss the names of judges who could serve on the court.
The selection panel to appoint judges for the international court to try suspects in the February 2005 assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri is expected to complete its mission by the end of November, An-Nahar newspaper reported Tuesday. The daily said UN chief Ban Ki-moon told the head of the Higher Judicial Council, Judge Antoine Kheir, who is in New York to supervise preparations for the establishment of the tribunal, that the UN was determined to have the court established, "for strictly human reasons rather than political ones." The selection panel for the court is composed of two judges currently sitting on or retired from an international tribunal, and the representative of the UN chief, and is tasked with recommending to Ban the names of the four Lebanese jurists and seven international ones who should serve on the court, as well as its chief prosecutor. Ban informed the Security Council in a letter in October his intention to appoint judges Mohammad Amin al-Mehdi from Egypt, Erik Mese from Norway and his adviser for legal affairs, Nicolas Michel, as members of the selection panel for the judges and prosecutor of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon covering Hariri's assassination. An-Nahar reported that Kheir held three rounds of meetings with Michel to discuss the names of judges who could serve on the court.
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