“Why has the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) suddenly asked for the fingerprints of four million Lebanese and all phone call data in Lebanon since 2004?” Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt asked in remarks published on Friday.
“Do they want to put Lebanon under complete international tutelage?” he said in an interview with As-Safir newspaper.
Ministers did well not to respond to STL Prosecutor-General Daniel Bellemare’s reported requests for such information, he added.
Jumblatt also warned against efforts to obtain a UN Security Council resolution for Lebanon under Chapter Seven of the UN Charter, calling such an effort a “destructive calculation.”
He added that he shares Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati’s worries that some are trying to obstruct the latter’s mission to form a cabinet, and that everyone must accept the principle of the alternation of power
“No one should forget that Resolution 1559 put Lebanon to some extent under international tutelage.”
Mikati on Thursday evening voiced surprise at Bellemare’s requests for information from Lebanese authorities, adding that he fears efforts to obtain a Security Council resolution to force compliance with them.
Mikati was appointed to the premiership in January with the March 8 coalition’s backing, following the collapse of Saad Hariri’s unity government due to a long-running dispute over the STL.
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