Now lebanon - Gemayel: Lebanon will pay price if STL commitment dishonored, October 4, 2011

Kataeb Party leader Amin Gemayel on Monday warned that Lebanon will “pay the price” if its government does not provide its share of funding to the UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL).
“Those who oppose [the tribunal] will pay the price… because such [a position] is wrong,” Gemayel told Future News.
He added that “it would be an insult for the people and the families of the martyrs” if the government does not provide its share of funding to the STL, which is probing the 2005 assassination of ex-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
Gemayel slammed Hezbollah’s use of arms, but said that “such issues should be dealt with objectively, so that everyone can benefit.”
He also reiterated his call for having Lebanon adopt “positive neutrality” in the region.
In a reference to the pro-democracy protests in Bahrain and Syria, he called for “letting the Bahraini people decide [their own fate],” and added that “the Syrian revolutionaries have enough support to achieve their demands.”
Asked about Maronite Patriarch’s Bechara Boutros al-Rai’s recent views, he said that “certain figures have a symbolic [position] that cannot be [insulted].”
The former Lebanese president also said that openly debating Lebanon’s topics of dispute “does not yield results,” and called for “calmly tackling our national affairs.”
A heated debate has erupted in Lebanon over controversial remarks made by Rai, who has warned that an end to Syria’s regime will pose a threat to Christians across the Middle East.

Rai urged that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad be given a chance to implement reforms, saying the “poor man cannot work miracles.”
The UN says that the Syrian regime’s crackdown on protests that erupted in mid-March has killed more than 2,700 people. 
Meanwhile, the Hezbollah-led March 8 parties – which currently dominate Lebanon’s cabinet – have opposed a clause in the Lebanese annual state budget pertaining to the funding of the tribunal that indicted Hezbollah members for Rafik Hariri’s murder.
Lebanon contributes 49 percent of the STL’s annual funding.