Valet måste genomföras på ett fritt och rättvist sätt, utan utländsk inblandning eller inflytande, och under de libanesiska myndigheternas suveräna kontroll. ###>We were shocked and saddened by the appalling terrorist attack perpetrated in Beirut on 14 February, which took the lives of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and of many other victims, while over a hundred people were seriously injured.