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LEBANON
CASE No. LEB/01 - GIBRAN TUENI

Resolution adopted by consensus by the IPU Governing Council at its 179th session*
(Geneva, 18 October 2006)


The Governing Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union,

Referring to the case of Mr. Gibran Tueni, a member of the National Assembly of Lebanon, managing editor of an-Nahar newspaper and an outspoken critic of the Syrian Arab Republic and its allies in Lebanon, who was killed in a car bomb attack on 12 December 2005, as outlined in the report of the Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians (CL/179/11(a)-R.1), and to the resolution adopted at its 178th session (May 2006),

Recalling the following:

  • In its resolution 1644 (2005), the United Nations Security Council authorized the International Independent Investigation Commission entrusted with the investigation of Prime Minister Hariri's murder to direct part of its capacity to the task of extending technical assistance to the Lebanese authorities with regard to 14 cases of assassination attempts, assassinations and bomb attacks carried out in Lebanon since 1 October 2004, including the murder of Mr. Tueni; in relation to these 14 cases, the Commission's latest report of 10 June 2006 (S/2006/375) states that "It seems unlikely that progress, including possible arrests, can be achieved without significant external assistance to the Lebanese authorities, serving as a catalyst for providing investigative capacity, coordinating capability and technical assistance";

  • Shortly after Mr. Tueni's assassination, the National Assembly associated itself in the court action taken by the public prosecutor; on 15 June 2006 the Minister of Justice, acting with the approval of the Supreme Judicial Council, designated Mr. Jihad Alwadi as the investigating judge in the case,
Bearing in mind the fighting that took place in Lebanon in the summer of 2006,
  1. Trusts that the Lebanese authorities, notwithstanding the difficult situation the country is facing, will continue to make every effort, as is their duty, to identify and bring to justice Mr. Tueni's killers, and that it will be assisted in this task by the United Nations International Independent Investigation Commission;

  2. Would appreciate receiving information on any progress that may meanwhile have been made in the investigation;

  3. Requests the Secretary General to seek this information from the Speaker of the National Assembly of Lebanon and from the head of the United Nations International Independent Investigation Commission;

  4. Requests the Committee to continue examining this case and report to it at its next session, to be held on the occasion of the 116th Assembly (April-May 2007).

* The Syrian delegation objected to the term "an outspoken critic of the Syrian Arab Republic" in preambular paragraph one.

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