  {"id":212582,"date":"2005-06-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T20:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=212582"},"modified":"2019-03-12T20:27:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T20:27:23","slug":"auto-insert-212582","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-212582\/","title":{"rendered":"Commission investigating Hariri killing fully operational &#8211; Statement issued by SecGen spokesman &#8211; Press release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong><u>COMMISSION INVESTIGATING HARIRI KILLING FULLY OPERATIONAL,<\/u><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#160;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong><u>SECRETARY-GENERAL INFORMS SECURITY CO±¬ÁÏÍøCIL<\/u><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#160;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for ±¬ÁÏÍø Secretary-General Kofi Annan:<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">This morning the Secretary-General wrote to the Security Council informing them that the ±¬ÁÏÍø International Independent Investigation Commission (±¬ÁÏÍøIIIC) investigating the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri and 20 others is fully operational as of today. <\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">This notification marks the start of the three-month period given by the Security Council to the Commission to carry out its investigation. This time period, established in resolution <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/AAF6AAC927E83BEE85256FDD0050FCFA.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">1595 (2005)<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">&nbsp;could be extended for up to three additional months at the discretion of the Secretary-General.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Mr. Detlev Mehlis, the head of the Commission, arrived in Beirut on 26 May and immediately began discussions with the Lebanese authorities regarding the operations of the Commission.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">He and the Government of Lebanon concluded a memorandum of understanding this week.&nbsp;&nbsp;Since his arrival, Mr. Mehlis and his team have been reviewing the materials and evidence collected by other investigations and inquiries.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;margin-left:340px;\">\n\t\t\t\tNew York, 16 June 2005\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COMMISSION INVESTIGATING HARIRI KILLING FULLY OPERATIONAL, &#160; SECRETARY-GENERAL INFORMS SECURITY CO±¬ÁÏÍøCIL &#160; The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for ±¬ÁÏÍø Secretary-General Kofi Annan: This morning the Secretary-General wrote to the Security Council informing them that the ±¬ÁÏÍø International Independent Investigation Commission (±¬ÁÏÍøIIIC) investigating the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-212582\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329,3205,1338],"document-source":[5352,1362,1981,3065],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1813,1965],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-212582","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-category-secretary-general-press-release","document-category-statement","document-source-secretary-general","document-source-security-council","document-source-special-envoy-secco-resolution-1559-2004","document-source-united-nations-international-independent-investigation-commission-uniiic","document-subject-middle-east-situation","document-subject-situation-in-lebanon","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/212582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/212582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=212582"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=212582"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=212582"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=212582"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=212582"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=212582"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=212582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}