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September 9, 2011
Now Lebanon - Terro says his bloc to vote in favor of STL funding in cabinet - September 09, 2011
Minister of the Displaced Alaeddine Terro said on Friday that, along with the ministers who represent Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt, he will vote in favor of funding the UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) in the cabinet.
“We have our own view regarding the tribunal, and we will vote in favor of funding it in the cabinet, because Lebanon cannot do otherwise,” Terro told the Voice of Lebanon (100.5) radio station.
He voiced hope the cabinet would approve Lebanon’s annual share of funding to the STL.
The STL indicted last month four Hezbollah members for ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s 2005 murder. However, the Shia group ruled out the arrest of the four suspects.
The Hezbollah-led March 8 parties –which currently dominate Lebanon’s cabinet –have opposed a clause in the Lebanese annual state budget, which pertains to the funding of the tribunal.
Lebanon contributes with 49 percent of the STL’s annual funding.
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