National Struggle Front MP Akram Chehayeb said on Wednesday that the Lebanese government “is more important” than the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), which is probing the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the National News Agency (NNA) reported.
However, Chehayeb said that the present government of Prime Minister Najib Mikati “is inclined to” pay Lebanon’s share of funding to the STL, adding that such a decision “would relieve it.”
“If there was no funding, then the government will not stay,” the MP said.
Four Hezbollah members have been indicted by the UN-backed court in the 2005 assassination of Hariri.
However, the Shia group strongly denied the charges and has been refusing to cooperate with the court. Lebanon contributes 49 percent of the STL’s annual funding.
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