Saat mengunjungi Kairo, Wakil Presiden Suriah Faruq El-Shara mengatakan, mahkamah itu telah diterima oleh semua pihak di Lebanon dan seharusnya tidak dipakai sebagai pedang Damocles, bukan pula dipolitisasi.
On a visit to Cairo, Syrian Vice President Faruq al-Shara the tribunal was accepted by all parties in Lebanon and should not be used as a sword of Damocles nor should it be politicised.