Syria has fully cooperated with a UN inquiry into the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri, Syria's deputy foreign minister says. Walid Muallim said there was "no reason for the Security Council to take measures against Syria", despite an interim report implicating Syrian officials in al-Hariri's killing in a 14 February bomb blast. "Syria has fully cooperated with the international commission of enquiry ... to cut the road to those who would try to use this inquiry to political ends against Syria and the region," Muallim told journalists outside Damascus. "Nothing could justify Security Council measures against Syria," he said, adding: "Syria is innocent of this crime."