The U.N. Security Council has picked Japanese Ambassador to the United Nations Kenzo Oshima to chair a panel tasked with determining whether to punish those suspected of being involved in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the Foreign Ministry said Friday.
The council selected Oshima during a meeting Wednesday. The panel will have to examine travel restrictions, asset freezes or other measures that the U.N. International Independent Investigation Commission can take against the suspects, it said.
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