Yesterday, the UN Security Council voted unanimously, to extend for another six months the mandate of the UN investigator looking into the 2005 murder of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.
Resolution 1815, which was drafted by France, renewed the mandate, which expires June 15, until December 31.
Michael Young on Hariri's assassination.
Hariri's killing triggered what became known as Lebanon's "Cedar Revolution", where hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets for three months demanding that Syria withdraw its army and intelligence agents from their country, after a 29-year presence. Syria's regime is the only serious suspect in the crime ‚ a fact recognised early on by UN investigators who have spent three years preparing a file on the Hariri case for the Leidschendam trial.
