Hizbullah
has reiterated that it would not bargain on its decision to reject the
funding of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, An Nahar newspaper
reported on Sunday.
Hizbullah “rejects any bargaining between the funding and other
issues such as false witnesses or security appointments,” sources close
to the Shiite party told the daily.
The group will confirm its point of view when the funding issue is put up for discussion during cabinet sessions, they said.
They told An Nahar that the stance of Hizbullah ministers in the
government will be based on an announcement made by Secretary-General
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in July 2010 and other statements and remarks
that have set the party’s viewpoint from the court ahead of the
indictment that charged four of its members.
In July last year, Nasrallah said that all information that
Hizbullah has show that the indictment in ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s
Feb. 2005 assassination was written in 2008 but it had been postponed
for political reasons.
A political source close to the parliamentary majority warned that
the funding of the tribunal would lead to a clash between Premier Najib
Miqati and Hizbullah in the next few days.
Miqati “rejects a confrontation with the international community
through a government that he heads,” the source told pan-Arab daily
Asharq al-Awsat.
“Both sides will lose if such a confrontation takes place inside the
ruling party,” he said, adding that Miqati would either quit or go
along with Hizbullah in rejecting the funding, putting himself on the
international blacklist.
The premier reiterated during his visit to New York last month that
Lebanon would pay its share of funds to the STL. On Thursday, he said
paying Lebanon’s share to the court will serve the country and the
resistance.
If Lebanon paid its dues, it will spare itself harm because there
are many who harbor ill-will against Lebanon and the resistance, he
added.
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/16998-report-hizbullahs-rejection-to-fund-stl-not-subject-to-bargaining
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