BEIRUT, Lebanon, May 11 (UPI) -- Saad Hariri, son of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, says an international court should try his father's assassins.
Hariri, leader of the parliamentary majority in Lebanon, says a tribunal could be set up under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter since Lebanon's two main political groups have been unable to agree on how to establish a court, the Lebanon Daily Star reported.
"We have reached a point where uniting the Lebanese Parliament has become impossible," Hariri said after a meeting with French President Jacques Chirac and incoming President Nicolas Sarkozy. "So it is now up to the UN to establish the court under Chapter 7, and I, Saad Hariri, support the court's creation under Chapter 7."
Rafik Hariri and 21 others were killed by a powerful bomb in Beirut in 2005.
Chirac, who is to live in an apartment owned by the Hariri family, was a close friend of Rafik Hariri. Saad Hariri said Sarkozy told him he hopes France and Lebanon continue to have a close relationship.
