United Nations Security Council Resolution 1595
United Nations Security Council · 2005
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Description
Resolution 1595 created an international investigation into the killing of Lebanon's former prime minister, Rafic Hariri. Hariri died in a huge Beirut car bombing in February 2005 that also killed 22 others. Lebanon asked for outside help, and the Council set up an independent commission that April.
The commission could question witnesses, gather evidence in Lebanon, and report its findings to the Council. Its work fed the later special tribunal for the case and raised pressure on Syria, whose troops left Lebanon that spring. The text is the founding record of one of the UN's most sensitive murder inquiries.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | United Nations Security Council |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2005 |
| COLLECTION | DECLASSIFIED |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 5841 |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | English Wikisource (UN official record transcription) |
Source: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1595