STL Protocol Expected to be Renewed without Lebanon’s Remarks
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon cooperation protocol is expected to pass automatically without any local fuss on the issue amid the cabinet’s impasse, according to newspapers published on Monday.
The Lebanese authorities will not submit any comments on U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon’s decision to extend the mandate of the court probing the assassination of ex-PM Rafik Hariri, sources told As Safir newspaper.
The daily reported that Speaker Nabih Berri informed Prime Minister Najib Miqati about Hizbullah and AMAL’s objection on the current cooperation protocol with the tribunal.
The Presidency and the Foreign Ministry received six days ago a letter from Ban inquiring authorities if Lebanon had any comments on the renewal of the STL protocol.
The U.N. Secretary General is willing to renew the court’s mandate for further three years.
Lebanon's mandate with the U.N. as concerns the STL expires at the end of February. Under the protocol establishing the STL, the mandate may be renewed without Lebanese approval if the court has not completed its work.
On February 1, Miqati decided to suspend the Cabinet sessions, which was seen as a solution to avert a quarrel among its members over the renewal of the STL’s protocol, but the premier denied the issue.
14 February 2012, 11:02
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predictable... it's a money-draining mechanism , not a truth-finding one, and the beauty, is that we're caught in it.
14 February 2012, 13:01
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you puppet general said syria did this crime no? who is the best ally of syria in lebanon? hezbollah, no? so the STL conclusions are close to aoun s ones...
so i guess you are telling us aoun also doesn t tell the truth, LOL!
14 February 2012, 16:15
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following your twisted logic, this makes me your mother-in-law. moron.
because aoun said syria did it to put more international pressure on syria. then he said the logical thing a diplomat would do: let's wait and see the investigation and where it might point. and now the investigation isnt pointing anymore at syria, is it?
14 February 2012, 11:38
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The lebanese governement still need the interests for the millions that Aoun took to France, Cookie stop wasting time on naharnet and find a way to give them back to the state if you trully love Lebanon and General ;)
14 February 2012, 15:22
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Money draining? You think the major powers in the world need to fake a court to steal a few million dollars? What a joke.
14 February 2012, 16:18
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the donations received by aoun were partially used to pay the army and when he was exiled he never got the time to take anything with him (:
if you or your master sanioura have proof he took the money (freely donated to him by lebanese people, and therefore, his by right) than pls dazzle us with your knowledge (:
i'm on naharnet for as long as it pleases me because your lies and brainwash truths are a delight for my eyes and your anger and insults, a continuous proof of the LF work 'ethic'
14 February 2012, 17:51
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the filthy zionist media terrorists hallucinate about something about aoun, because they don't have anything to write on the subject of STL
14 February 2012, 19:04
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aoun hasn t taken lebanese money when he escaped to france like saad hariri now, he received money from saddam hussein and yasser arafat at the time....now he gets it from syria iran and hezbollah...
15 February 2012, 05:51
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look they are upgrading answering software.
but still retarded
