Hamadeh: We Demand that STL Clause in Policy Statement Be Immediately Amended
March 14 MP Marwan Hamadeh demanded on Tuesday Prime Minister Najib Miqati to amend the clause on the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in the government policy statement and return to the national charter and the Doha Accord.
He said during the parliament session aimed at discussing the government’s policy statement: “The term of ‘in principle’ should be dropped from the statement because it means that the truth will be abandoned.”
“No, PM Miqati, your friend [former Premier Rafik Hariri] was not killed ‘in principle’ but he was assassinated by explosives. Those behind the ugliest crime are about to be uncovered, so why is the STL being so fiercely attacked?” the MP wondered.
“We don’t wish anyone harm, but we want security and justice away from the rhetoric of treason,” he added.
“We’re not here to question anyone but the cabinet and its visible leaders and actual ones,” he remarked.
“Isn’t justice owed to the martyrs as the policy statement has only voiced initial support to the STL?” asked the opposition MP.
“We’re worried about Lebanon because it is being taken to where the Arabs are escaping from and being led to the rule of the party of weapons,” Hamadeh stated.
Addressing Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the MP said: “All we are looking forward to is jointly forming a special tribunal for Palestine and all the occupied Lebanese and Syrian territories so we can restore them.”
Turning to PSP leader and former ally MP Walid Jumblat: “The STL did not protect your father Kamal, but it did protect you when you became a target for assassination.”
“The STL isn’t anyone’s enemy, it is your ally to extract Lebanon from the claws of crime,” Hamadeh stressed.
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