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March 8 ministerial source that rejects the funding of the Special
Tribunal for Lebanon has criticized Premier Najib Miqati for promising
the international community that Lebanon would pay its share of funds
for the STL.
The source unveiled to pan-Arab daily al-Hayat published Sunday that
Miqati hasn’t yet proposed any suggestion to fund the court and hasn’t
discussed any approach with Hizbullah, which rejects the funding.
The Shiite party slams the STL as an Israeli and American tool and
says the indictment issued against four Hizbullah members has no
foundations given that it is based on the circumstantial evidence of
telecommunications data in ex-Premier Rafik Hariri Feb. 2005
assassination.
“The prime minister’s continued remarks about a commitment to fund
the tribunal are harming him and putting him in a critical situation
with the international parties and local sides, mainly Hizbullah and
its allies,” the source said.
He stressed that any solution to the funding lies in the cabinet,
hinting that the funding would be obstructed by Hizbullah and the
remaining March 8 forces.
A report said Saturday that Hizbullah has recently formed a
committee of legal experts to carefully examine the cooperation
protocol signed between Lebanon and the STL.
Opposition political sources told al-Liwaa newspaper that the
committee will then seek to introduce a number of amendments to this
agreement.
But legal experts told the Kuwaiti al-Anbaa daily on Sunday that the protocol is not linked to the court’s funding.
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