Outgoing Prime Minister Saad Hariri “does not object” to the judiciary deciding on the recent dispute over control of a new telecommunications network set up in the Adliyeh district, according to a statement issued by his office on Thursday evening.
Hariri contacted President Michel Sleiman, Interior Minister Ziad Baroud, and “the concerned security, judicial military authorities” on Thursday regarding “the attempt by Telecommunications Minister Charbel Nahhas to put his hands on the third communications network,” said the statement.
Nahhas is attempting to “remove [the network] from the control of legal authorities without any legal justification,” it said.
Hariri “does not object that the competent judicial authority takes up this issue to determine why the minister of telecommunications overruled the decisions of the [cabinet], and to determine the party to which Nahhas wants to deliver the third telecommunications network, outside the control of the Lebanese state and without its knowledge.”
On Thursday Nahhas said in a press conference that Internal Security Forces units had illegally occupied a building owned by his ministry in Adliyeh, accusing the Internal Security Forces command of mounting a coup against the state.
Ogero later in the day issued a statement that it had been assigned by the cabinet to manage equipment donated by the Chinese government to launch a new mobile phone company. The company added that it requested that the ISF protect the building where the equipment is stored to prevent any attempt to take the equipment by the Telecommunication Ministry.
-NOW Lebanon
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