The consultations provided Monday, January 17 for appointment of a new prime minister after the fall of the government of Saad Hariri - caused by the resignation of the ministers of Hezbollah and its allies - have been postponed to January 24, said a statement from the President . "After evaluating the positions of different parties in Lebanon (...), President Michel Suleiman has decided to postpone the parliamentary consultations on Monday, January 24 and Tuesday, January 25, 2011," according to a statement from the president.This crisis began with the indictment of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), tasked with investigating the 2005 murder of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, whose surrender by the attorney for Judge pretrial is expected Monday at a closed hearing. Several foreign media reported that the STL would cause members of Hezbollah.
The indictments, confidential, will be presented by the prosecutor Daniel Bellemare to judge the readiness, Daniel Fransen, examine them for their confirmation, a process that could take "six to ten weeks." Sunday, the armed Shiite movement warned it will "defend" against any charge. The Lebanese television channel New TV aired on Sunday 16 January, a sound recording dated 2007 in which the incumbent Prime Minister Hariri said before the inquiry that he was convinced that the Syrian regime had ordered the murder his father, the leader Rafik Hariri.
The recording aired by New TV, which does not specify how it obtained it was authenticated by Mr Hariri himself, in a statement after its release Sunday evening. It takes place the day before the expected submission of the indictment of the STL, in charge of the investigation into the murder of 14 February 2005, in which the powerful Hezbollah says it would be "unfairly" blamed.
Registration is on excerpts of the testimony, in English, Saad Hariri - who was not prime minister at the time - before the investigator Lajmi Mohammad Ali, which continued for two days. "By January [2005], my father said to [Walid] Moallem [Syrian Foreign Minister] said to Bashar Al-Assad [the Syrian president] 'I'll never against Syria, but you can not continue like that ', "said Mr.
Hariri, with reference to the interference of Damascus, then the power of guardianship of her neighbor for thirty years. "Walid then said 'you tread on dangerous ground", he added. "If you ask me why and how it [the murder] happened, I think qu'Assef Shawkat [currently deputy chief of staff and brother of Assad] and Maher [Assad, brother of the president and currently an officer in the army] have played a considerable role in this, "says Mr Hariri in the record.
Asked by the interviewer to explain "this," the son of Rafik Hariri replied: "in the assassination, in preparation for making the decision that Bashar."
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