The United Nations International Independent Investigation Commission or UNIIIC was established on 7 April 2005 by
Security Council Resolution 1595 to investigate the assassination of former Prime Minister of
Lebanon,
Rafic Hariri, who had been
killed in Beirut on 14 February 2005.
On 13 May 2005 Secretary-General
Kofi Annan appointed German judge
Detlev Mehlis to lead the Commissio
On 19–20 October 2005 the first
Mehlis report of the Commission was delivered.
Upon release of the first report, the term of the investigation was extended to 15 December 2005.
A second, expanded, report followed on 10 December 2005. Five days later, on 15 December 2005, the Security Council voted unanimously to extend the investigation for another six months to 15 June 2006. That same day Detlev Mehlis stepped down as chief investigator to return to Berlin.
On 11 January 2006 Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed Belgian
Serge Brammertz to replace Mehli
On 19 November 2007 Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon appointed Canadian
Daniel Bellemare to replace Brammertz on 1 January 2008 after he leaves to replace
Carla Del Ponte as chief prosecutor at
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
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On 28 November 2007 Brammertz presented the Commission's ninth report.
On 28 March 2008 the tenth report of the Commission was delivered by
Daniel Bellemare.
The UNIIIC mandate ended on February 28, 2009 and it was superseded by the
Special Tribunal for Lebanon on March 1, 2009.
[ Eleventh report of the International Independent
Investigation Commission]
In its various reports, UNIIIC determined that members of Lebanese and Syrian security and intelligence agencies committed the assassination through members of Hisbollah.
References
1595
Events
January–June
* January – Mehmed III succeeds Murad III, as sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
* January 17 – During the French Wars of Religion, Henry IV of France declares war on Spain.
* April 8 (March 29 O.S.) & ...
2005 in Lebanon
Organizations established in 2005
Lebanon and the United Nations
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