French Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Bernard Valero urged on Wednesday “the need to respect the probe of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL).”
“[France] stresses the need to preserve Lebanon’s unity within [the country’s] respect of international commitments, including the STL,” Valero was quoted by the Italian news agency AKI as saying.
The French official also said that his country is not interfering in the process of forming a new Lebanese cabinet headed by Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati.
He called on Lebanese parties to cooperate through “dialogue and consensus.”
Mikati, who was appointed to the premiership on January 25 with the Hezbollah-led March 8 coalition’s backing, is working to form a Lebanese cabinet amid a March 14 decision to boycott the government.
Tension ignited in Lebanon over unconfirmed reports that the STL might implicate Hezbollah members in its investigation of the 2005 assassination of former PM Rafik Hariri, a move the Shia party has reportedly warned against.
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