Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri says he stands firm against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s “crimes,” at an event marking the anniversary of his father’s assassination that he has blamed on Damascus.
Hariri, whose father Rafiq Hariri was killed along with 22 other people in a February 15, 2005, bomb blast on the Beirut seafront, was appointed prime minister in November for a second time, under an arrangement struck with the pro-Syrian Shiite group Hezbollah.
“We negotiated and we made compromises to preserve stability” in Lebanon, Hariri tells a packed hall in Beirut.
“We have not made, and will not make, any compromise on principles such as the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, on our point of view on Assad’s regime, our stand on illegitimate arms and on Hezbollah’s implication in Syria,” he says to loud applause.
The Hague-based tribunal is responsible for trying Rafiq Hariri’s assassination.
— AFP
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