Miqati Readies STL Clause Amid Efforts to Hold Vote of Confidence Session End of June
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Premier Najib Miqati said Monday that he had readied his draft policy statement and would suggest an approach on the controversial issue of the international tribunal during the ministerial committee’s meeting.
The committee tasked with drafting the statement would meet on Tuesday. However, Miqati would hand over copies of his draft to the committee members on Monday to allow them to make their remarks during the meeting at the Grand Serail.
The prime minister told As Safir daily that he would not reveal his suggestion on the Special Tribunal for Lebanon clause in the policy statement “out of respect for the secrecy of consultations.”
The newspaper said that Miqati wrote down the clause on the STL after consultations with Minister Ali Hassan Khalil, the Hizbullah leader’s aide Hussein Khalil, and Ministers Ghazi Aridi and Shakib Qortbawi.
The clause is expected to satisfy all factions of the majority and appease the March 14 opposition, As Safir said. “It would also receive a good Arab and international echo.”
Meanwhile, ministerial sources told al-Liwaa newspaper that the committee could hold two or three meetings this week to speed up the drafting of the ministerial statement and pave way for parliament to discuss the statement by the end of June and make its confidence vote.
20 June 2011, 15:32
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It must be some miraculous statement on the STL to have been drafted in consultation with the Hezbollah, which is a potential object of prosecution for the Tribunal, and the "Opposition", M14, which was formed based primarily on finding the truth behind the assassination of PM Rafic Hariri.
It must read like poetry, as if one were to explain the blackness of night by describing the bright rays of the sun; or how the spots on a leopard and the stripes on a zebra are both the same and interchangeable.
When one party is organized around the principle of avoiding justice, and the other in seeking justice, the statement of Mikati is nonsensical. The people are not so stupid as to believe such tripe.
