Middle East: Orb Standard

Syria has rejected a UN request to meet President Bashar al-Assad as part of an inquiry into the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri last year, diplomatic sources in Beirut said on Saturday.

They said Syria had told the U.N. commission the request violates the country's sovereignty.

Former Syrian vice president Abdul Halim Khaddam, who last week accused Damascus of involvement in the murder of Hariri, met UN investigators in Paris this week, he told AFP on Saturday.

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