UN facts finding commission ends mission in Lebanon

At a time when demonstrations in support of or against the Lebanese government continued, the UN team in charge of facts finding in the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafic Hariri concluded its mission.

An official source in the media department at the UN in New York said that the chairman of the team Fitz Gerald notified on Tuesday the Lebanese President Emil Lahoud the end of his mission.

Gerald thanked President Lahoud for the help members of the UN team received during their presence in Beirut especially officials, security sides and the judiciary.

For his part, the Lebanese President stressed that Lebanon is committed to disclose the implications of the assassination of Hariri, the planners and sides committed this crime to be brought before the justice." The team will head for New York to submit its report to the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan who assigned the team to prepare a report within one month period at the request of the UN Security Council. The UN team arrived in Beirut on February 24.