http://www.timesofoman.com/newsdetails.asp?newsid=21115 DAMASCUS — Syria pledged yesterday to cooperate with the international community even as it rejected a UN report on the murder of Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq Al Hariri that implicated top Syrian figures. The report accused Syria of blocking and misleading the four-month-long investigation into the February bomb blast that killed Hariri and 20 others on the Beirut seafront, and raised the threat of international sanctions.
“The report was influenced by the political climate that prevailed in Lebanon after the (Hariri) assassination, and it is based on preconceived ideas that led to accusatory and slanderous conclusions against Syria without any proof,” said joint Foreign Minister Ahmed Arnus.
Syria will be the “only one to suffer the negative consequences of this report,” he told a press conference in the Syrian capital.
Syria said yesterday it might allow UN investigators to question Syrian officials and denied it had not cooperated fully with the probe into the killing of Hariri. “If there is any demand coming from the commission we will discuss it with the commission and we might agree,” Foreign Ministry legal adviser Riad Al Daudi said.
Daudi criticised the credibility of testimony provided by Hariri allies cited in the report, who gave their accounts of Syrian threats against Hariri...
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