BEIRUT: Progressive Socialist Party chief and MP Walid Jumblatt has traveled to The Hague to prepare his expected testimony before an international court investigating the 2005 assassination of former premier Rafik Hariri, a report said Thursday.
Local daily Al-Akhbar said Jumblatt left Lebanon for the Netherlands on Tuesday “for consultations" with the Special Tribunal for Lebanon which is expected to summon the MP to give testimony in the case of Hariri’s assassination.
The report did not give a date for Jumblatt's appearance before the court.
The STL resumed Wednesday the trial of five Hezbollah members accused of involvement in the Feb. 14, 2005 Beirut blast that killed Hariri and more than 20 others, following a week and a half long recess.
Jumblatt-ally MP Marwan Hamade, who is testifying on the breakdown of relations between Hariri and Syrian President Bashar Assad in the run-up to the assassination, is expected to continue his testimony next week before the court.
His testimony has refocused attention on the alleged role played by Syria in the assassination.
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