31/05/2007 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday the EU welcomed resolution 1757 of the UN Security Council on setting up a special court for investigating the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri and other political attacks in Lebanon. In a declaration, the German presidency of the EU affirmed that this development constituted “an important message from the international community indicating that politically motivated attacks and assassinations committed in Lebanon would not remain unpunished”. The EU calls on all countries, as well as the different Lebanese parties, to help set up the court as quickly as possible and to cooperate unreservedly with it. (hb)