The UN Security Council will hold a ministerial meeting next week to address a UN report that implicated Syria in the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri, US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Monday.

"You will have a ministerial meeting on October 31," spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters.

The Security Council is to hear a briefing Tuesday by German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis, who led the UN investigation into the Hariri murder and released a report last week that found " converging evidence of both Syrian and Lebanese involvement."

The UN report, released on Oct 20, linked Syria with the murder of Hariri and called on the Syrian authorities to cooperate with investigators.

"There is converging evidence pointing at both Lebanese and Syrian involvement in this terrorist act," said the report, referring to the Feb. 14 deadly bomb attack in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, which killed Hariri and 20 others.

Syria has denied it has any links to the killing of Hariri.

Source: Xinhua