Conflicting Reports over Request Sent to Lebanon on STL Funding
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Lebanon has received a formal request from the United Nations to pay its share in the Special Tribunal for Lebanon probing the assassination of ex-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, An Nahar newspaper reported on Friday.
The daily said the request was sent to the Foreign Ministry that passed it to the Grand Serail with a timeframe not more than two or three months.
Prime Minister Najib Miqati had received at the end of September a message from U.N. chief Ban Ki-Moon requesting Lebanon to pay its $33 million dues.
The newspaper noted that Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour received the request before heading to New York last month, and conveyed it to the presidency of the cabinet.
However, official sources at the Foreign Ministry denied to al-Joumhouria newspaper receiving any formal request concerning the funding of the STL.
Al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Thursday that the Finance Ministry had received the STL funding request from the U.N.
A dispute recently rose in Lebanon on whether the March 8-dominant government would commit to funding the tribunal.
The STL had issued arrest warrants against four Hizbullah members, accusing them of being involved in Hariri’s Feb. 2005 murder.
The party has announced that it will not cooperate with the tribunal, describing it as an American-Israeli product aimed at destroying it.
President Michel Suleiman and Miqati committed themselves to the funding of the STL during their visit to New York in September.
07 October 2011, 08:43
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no more double talk, this is the moment of truth.
I think each and everyone of us needs to be prepared for the big explosion.
07 October 2011, 14:33
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I am not conflicted in any way, shape or form. Why? Because I know the joke will not be funded and I care less about a lame farce. I am simply annoyed, not by the repetition day and night of stories relating to this boring joke, but by the idiots who have not gotten it yet that there is no way on earth that the government, ANY GOVERNMENT, will fund or continue to support a charade. Just remember that it was cheikh Imbecile himself who approved the SALE CONTRACT OF THE STL and hoped, in return, to have total authority on the land of the FREE!!!! Hell, NO. Now we all know the end of the story: THE IMBECILE DESERVEDLY GOT THE BIGGEST FRIGGIN BOOT OF HIS LAME AND PATHETIC LIFE. Sorry, LOSERS.
07 October 2011, 14:36
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Big explosion, huh! Remind us again, jerk, when did you say your empty crane will explode? Or, in your case, implode?
07 October 2011, 15:37
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if those spitting on the STL had nothing to reproach themselves they wouldnt do everything they can to stop this tribunal...
he who isn t afraid of his deeds would stand proudly in a tribunal court and prove his innocence...
but hezbollah has no evidence that he is innocent like syria so they try to disgrace this tribunal!
by their behaviour they prove that they are afraid and that they have sthg to do with the killings....
the STL is still waiting for the evidence from turbanman of the implication of israel by the way...
but his file is as empty as his head which he hides under his cloth....
