The Trial Chamber of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon will hold a third Pre-Trial Conference on Thursday 9 January in preparation for the start of the trial in the Ayyash et al. case. The Pre-Trial Conference, which will be public, will begin at 10:30 AM (Central European Time). The Trial Chamber may decide to go into closed session if confidential matters need to be discussed. The hearing can be followed on the STL website with a 30-minute delay in Arabic, English and French.