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Canada Grants Additional 1 Million Dollars to STL

Canada is granting an additional 1 million dollars to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon probing the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri, announced Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon, reported the daily al-Mustaqbal on Saturday.

The total of Canadian contributions to the STL reached 3.7 million dollars, the daily remarked.

Special Tribunal for Lebanon Registrar, Herman von Hebel, confirmed earlier this year that tribunal prosecutor Daniel Bellemare had submitted an indictment and supporting materials to Pre-Trial Judge Daniel Fransen.

Earlier in March, Bellemare submitted an amended indictment to Fransen.


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