Mustaqbal: STL Funding Not Open to Discussion
The Mustaqbal bloc stressed on Tuesday that the executive authority and government in Lebanon are obligated to fund the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.
It said in a statement after its weekly meeting: “This issue is not open for discussion.”
The government should implement Lebanon’s international obligations, as stated by President Michel Suleiman during his presidential oath and the cabinet’s policy statement, it added.
“It is clear that some sides are trying to obstruct the tribunal’s funding and they are also preventing the suspects in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri from being handed over to international justice,” it noted.
Such actions will only lead Lebanon towards a confrontation with the international community, it warned.
The STL had issued arrest warranted accusing four Hizbullah members of being involved in Hariri’s 2005 assassination.
The party has meanwhile refused to cooperate with the tribunal, deeming it an American-Israeli product aimed at destroying the group.
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