UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday condemned another assassination of a Lebanese lawmaker, who was killed after an apparent car bomb attack in Beirut.
In a statement issued by his spokesperson, Ban said he was "shocked by the brutal assassination" of Antoine Ghanem and offered his condolences to the families of all the people killed.
"Such acts of terrorism are aimed at undermining Lebanon's stability and are unacceptable," the statement said. "Lebanon has suffered far too many such attempts."
Ban urged all Lebanese to show "calm and restraint at this very critical time and to allow judicial procedures to take their course" and stressed the need for continued dialogue within the country.
Ghanem, the Lebanese Christian lawmaker, was killed earlier Wednesday along with at least eight others by an explosion in the Sin el-Fil district, a Christian suburb.
The explosion took place just a week before a parliament meeting due on Sept. 25, during which a new head of state will be elected to replace the incumbent President Emile Lahoud.
Coincidentally, the assassination occurred the same day that the UN Security Council received a briefing from UN Legal Counsel Nicolas Michel on the progress being made towards establishing the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, which is being set up to prosecute those responsible for the February 2005 assassination of the country's former prime minister Rafiq Hariri.
Source: Xinhua
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