BEIRUT, Lebanon, Sept 30 (Lebanonwire) -- LBC’ New York correspondent Raghida Dergham told the station yesterday that the UN predicts there will be more assassination attempts, but that the Lebanon will eventually come out on top.

Dergham said that as soon as Lebanon officially asks for a new UN Security resolution to investigate LBC journalist May Chidiak’s recent bombing attack, a mechanism will be put in place to put that resolution in action, expanding Detlev Mehlis’s UN mission to uncover the perpetrators behind former Premier Rafik Hariri's murder.

Dergham said that the UN is convinced that until the Mehlis report is published, the wave of assassinations will continue, and might include foreigners, “but UN officials also feel that eventually those planting the bombs will stop and their identity will be revealed.”

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said following a five-hour Cabinet meeting that Lebanon is calling on a number of countries to contribute their technical expertise and help solve the string of assassinations that have either killed or maimed a number of politicians and media representatives opposed to Syria. “We are moving towards asking the UN for help, if they will accept it,” Siniora told journalists during a post Cabinet meeting press conference.

Siniora, who named Saudia, Qatar, the UN , the US, Belgium, Australia, Britain, France, Egypt, Russia, Japan and China as the countries Lebanon had contacted for help, said that “we are not dealing with a simple murderer or terrorist group, and although we don’t expect them to stop, our priority will be to do all we can to find out who they are.”

Next Tuesday, the Cabinet will meet in an extraordinary session to decide on naming the heads of security in Lebanon, an issue which has yet to be resolved due to political bickering, attracting the ire of the Lebanese community that believes the impass is helping creating a favorable climate for assassinations.

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