Future bloc MP Jean Ogassapian said on Tuesday that everything that is being said about the Special Tribunal for Lebanon’s (STL) indictment “is an analysis,” adding that his bloc “does not rely on information published through media [outlets].”
“We have no information as to when the STL’s indictment will be issued, we are waiting for it to be delivered by the tribunal,” he told Voice of Lebanon (100.5) radio.
“We consider the STL to be the [only] way to end political assassinations in Lebanon,” Ogassapian added.
He also warned against cancelling Lebanon’s ties with the tribunal, an action “which will expose the country to even more disputes, and make it ‘a rogue country’ in the eyes of the international community.”
The new Lebanese cabinet—headed by Prime Minister Najib Mikati—was formed on June 12 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.
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