The US on Tuesday said the UN Security Council should maintain the pressure on Damascus as Lebanon mourned the death of Gebran Tueni, the prominent anti-Syrian publisher and legislator and the latest victim in a wave of political assassinations.

With the UN Security Council set to discuss a report that implicates Syria in the February killing of Rafiq Hariri, Lebanon?s former prime minister, the White House said it was important that the council ?continue to keep the pressure, and increase the pressure, on Syria?.