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On Wednesday, the U.N. undersecretary-general for political affairs, Ibrahim Gambari, said he expected the Security Council to extend the investigation past its December deadline "with or without Mehlis."
They set up a simple tent on the pavement decorated with plain panels on which visitors noted impressions, mostly ironic: "Syria is not responsible that Cain killed Abel," "Syria is not responsible for the earthquake in Pakistan.""What we care about is the sovereignty of the nation and its honor," [Rateb Shallah] told UPI. "We want the United Nations to act according to its main objectives and stop exposing nations and peoples to injustices and sufferings... It should be in principle against the isolation and besieging of nations," he said.See the full content of this document
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Syria Wants U.N. Report Changed
DAMASCUS - First, the major witness causing Syria to be implicated by the United Nations in the killing last spring of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri recanted his testimony at a publicly broadcast news conference.
Then, the head of the U.N. team, Detlev Mehlis, announced he is leaving and will not even go to Vienna next week to question five senior Syrian officials in their investigation.Then, the government of Lebanon asked the United Nations to extend the investigation...See the full content of this document
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