Justice Minister Shakib Qortbawi said on Saturday that the judiciary will follow up on the claim made by Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah that his party has uncovered three spies among its members.
“The issue of spies should not be neglected; but followed up carefully until the judicial authority takes the appropriate decision,” he told Akhbar al-Yawm news agency.
“It is not our right to categorize people or countries [for being enemies], except for Israel because it is our mutual enemy,” Qortbawi added.
The Justice Minister also said that the committee responsible for drafting the ministerial statement will meet on Monday afternoon in order to continue its discussions concerning the different articles of the statement, the one concerning the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in particular.
“[Lebanon] is a founding state of the UN; we are not a state outside of international legitimacy,” he added.
The Hezbollah chief also said that two members of Hezbollah had been recruited by the US Central Intelligence Agency.
The new Lebanese cabinet—headed by Prime Minister Najib Mikati—was formed last week after almost five months of deliberations between the March 8 parties.
Before bringing down Saad Hariri’s cabinet in January, Hezbollah had been pressing him to disavow the STL, which is probing the 2005 assassination of former PM Rafik Hariri and likely to implicate members of the Shia group.
The Ministerial Statement of Saad Hariri’s government recognized the STL.
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