The Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) can only be stopped by a UN Security Council decision, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmad Abu al-Gheit said in an interview published on Monday.
Egypt supports the UN-backed STL because no murder should go uninvestigated, Abu al-Gheit told the Egyptian newspaper Al-Usbou, adding that the Lebanese state itself had supported the tribunal as the answer to former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri’s 2005 assassination and that Hezbollah was part of the decision.
“Lebanon cannot accept murder as a way to end a political dispute,” he said.
Asked why no international tribunal had been set up in response to former Prime Minister Rashid Karami’s assassination in 1987, Abu al-Gheit said there can be no comparison made between Karami’s and Hariri’s murders because “what happened during the Lebanese civil war is one thing and what happens today is another.”
On Thursday, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah called on all Lebanese to boycott the STL and to end cooperation with its investigators.
Egypt supports the UN-backed STL because no murder should go uninvestigated, Abu al-Gheit told the Egyptian newspaper Al-Usbou, adding that the Lebanese state itself had supported the tribunal as the answer to former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri’s 2005 assassination and that Hezbollah was part of the decision.
“Lebanon cannot accept murder as a way to end a political dispute,” he said.
Asked why no international tribunal had been set up in response to former Prime Minister Rashid Karami’s assassination in 1987, Abu al-Gheit said there can be no comparison made between Karami’s and Hariri’s murders because “what happened during the Lebanese civil war is one thing and what happens today is another.”
On Thursday, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah called on all Lebanese to boycott the STL and to end cooperation with its investigators.
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