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| Hariri's Son To Meet U.S. President Bush |
| 2006-01-23 |
| Beirut, 23 Jan. (AKI) - The son of former Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri, arrives in Washington Monday for a five day visit to the United Sates which will include a meeting with President Geroge W. Bush. Saad ad-Din Hariri leads the anti-Syrian coalition that won Lebanon's June 2005 elections, the first to be held without a Syrian military presence in the country in almost 30 years. Accoriding to officials of Hariri's political movement "The Future" the purpose of the visit is to win US support for the creation of an international tribunal to try those accused of murdering his father in a 14 February 2005 bombing in Beirut. A UN probe has implicated top Lebanese and Syrian security officials in the attack which killed 22 people. Hariri is also scheduled to visit the UN headquarters in New York where he is expected to endorse a US-French proposal for a declaration urging the application of UN Security Council 1559 which calls for the disarming of all militias in Lebanon. The Lebanese politician will also meet World Bank president James Wolfensohn as well as US business leaders to try and secure economic aid and investments for the Lebanese economy. Hariri will be accompanied during the trip by the deputy speaker of the Lebanese parliament, Farid Makari. |
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