Minister of the Displaced Alaeddine Terro said in an interview published on Wednesday that Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt, President Michel Sleiman and Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s stances on the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) will not lead to cabinet disagreements over the issue.
“The debate inside the committee [drafting the Ministerial Statement] aims to find an approach regarding the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) that does not reject international resolutions,” he told Al-Liwaa newspaper.
Terro also said that the Ministerial Statement will be completed soon.
Media outlets have reported that the STL’s indictment for the 2005 assassination of former PM Rafik Hariri will soon be issued.
The new Lebanese cabinet—headed by Mikati—was formed on June 13 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 likely to implicate members of the Shia group for the Rafik Hariri murder.
Saad Hariri’s cabinet recognized the STL in its ministerial statement.
-NOW Lebanon
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