“No one will be able to abolish the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) or change its course, not even Prime Minister Saad Hariri,” Lebanon First bloc MP Serge Torsarkissian said on Monday.
It is wrong for some to suppose that if Hariri resigned, a new cabinet could abolish the UN probe into the 2005 assassination of former PM Rafik Hariri, he told Future News.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's political advisor Buthaina Shaaban’s recent comment that there is no problem between Hariri and Damascus is good, “unlike other statements that attack Hariri,” Torsarkissian added.
Tension is high in Lebanon after unconfirmed reports that the STL will soon issue its indictment for murder of Rafik Hariri. There are fears that should the court indict Hezbollah members, it could lead to clashes similar to those of the 2008 May Events – when gunmen led by the Party of God took over half of Beirut.
On Thursday, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah called on all Lebanese to boycott the STL and to end cooperation with its investigators.
It is wrong for some to suppose that if Hariri resigned, a new cabinet could abolish the UN probe into the 2005 assassination of former PM Rafik Hariri, he told Future News.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's political advisor Buthaina Shaaban’s recent comment that there is no problem between Hariri and Damascus is good, “unlike other statements that attack Hariri,” Torsarkissian added.
Tension is high in Lebanon after unconfirmed reports that the STL will soon issue its indictment for murder of Rafik Hariri. There are fears that should the court indict Hezbollah members, it could lead to clashes similar to those of the 2008 May Events – when gunmen led by the Party of God took over half of Beirut.
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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