http://www.english.hadhramaut.info Lebanon MPs elect Berri as parliament speaker [The Source: /www.alarabiya.ne - 25/06/2009] Lebanon's parliament on Thursday re-elected Nabih Berri, leader of the Shiite opposition Amal movement, to a fifth consecutive term as speaker of the parliament, consolidating his position as one of the country's most influential politicians.Ninety of parliament's 128 members voted for the 71-year old, including the Future Movement of Sunni politician Saad al-Hariri, one of Berri's main opponents during a crisis that pushed Lebanon to the brink of civil war last year." If it were up to me, the Cabinet would be formed in two weeks " Nabih Berri, speaker of parliament Addressing parliament after his election, Berri called on Lebanon's politicians to seize "the regional and international moment ... to strengthen Lebanon's peace and stability." "This requires us to facilitate the establishment of a national government," said Berri, viewed as one of Syria's closest allies in Lebanon. Lebanon’s sectarian system requires that the speaker of the parliament be Shiite and Berri has ran largely unopposed since he first held the post in 1992. Saad Hariri, leader of the Future Movement and the March 14 alliance, supported Berri’s re-election. Hariri is expected to be named prime minister Berri’s Amal movement was aligned with the opposition March 8 alliance, led by Christian leader Michel Aoun and Hassan Nasrallah’s Hezbollah party, and his re-election signals determination to work towards a unity government. He had called Wednesday for the formation of a national-unity cabinet that would put an end to divisions between March 14 and the opposition March 8 forces.Berri voiced hope that his election would spearhead efforts "to reunite the Lebanese in a national government that would benefit both camps in times of crisis," he said in a statement to AFP Wednesday, adding that the goal was to form the new cabinet "as quickly as possible." "If it were up to me, the cabinet would be formed in two weeks," he said. Top Website for tip-offs " It is a fairly common practice at the level of international justice, particularly with the international criminal tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia " Prosecutor\\\'s officeIn other Lebanon news, a United Nations court investigating the 2005 assassination of Rafiq Hariri, former prime minister of Lebanon, launched a secure website for people to supply information on the case.The page was specifically for people "who have valuable information for the investigation but have no secure and confidential means to pass it on," said a statement from the Special Tribunal for Lebanon's prosecutors office. "It is a fairly common practice at the level of international justice, particularly with the international criminal tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia," the prosecutor's spokesman Radhia Achouri told AFP.The Internet page, available in English, French and Arabic -- the tribunal's three official languages -- "has nothing to do with the investigation, which is making progress," said Achouri."We want to give everyone who would like to supply informaton a chance to do so," she added.The English version is at https://www.stl-tsl.org/action/submissionform. Hariri's was murdered in a bomb blast on the Beirut seafront that killed 22 other people in February 2005 was widely blamed on Syria but Damascus has denied involvement.