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US: Lebanon cabinet must not legitimize terrorist groups

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kerry mikatiUS Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday said that a new Lebanese government should not legitimize any “terrorist organizations,” in an implicit reference to the Washington-blacklisted Hezbollah.

“We admire the efforts to put together a government, but we are very clear that government needs to not provide an opportunity for legitimization of any terrorist organization or violence within Lebanon,” Kerry said.

“We are very clear that that the government needs to not provide an opportunity for legitimization of any terrorist organization or violence within Lebanon,” Kerry said in remarks to the press prior to his meeting with caretaker Premier Najib Miqati in Kuwati.

He also announced that the US will be providing additional aid for Lebanon to cope with the growing influx of Syrian refugees into the country.

“The US will be providing an additional $76 million, which is the largest amount we have put in directly into Lebanon for the refugee challenge.”

“I want to make it clear that President [Barack] Obama and the US stand very firmly behind our friends in Lebanon,” he added.

Miqati and Kerry are both attending the Second International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria in Kuwait, which aims to raise $6.5 billion for more than 13.4 million Syrians facing extreme conditions inside the country and in neighboring nations.

As Miqati a Hezbollah ally is traveling to Kuwait to call for additional aid for Lebanon, the country’s politicians are engaged in intensified efforts to broker a new national-partnership cabinet that would give eight ministers each to the rival March 8 and 14 alliances as well as centrists.
AFP/UPI

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2 responses to “US: Lebanon cabinet must not legitimize terrorist groups”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    “The US will be providing an additional $76 million, …”

    And I believe that the Lebanese themselves need some of that. I could name some names in fact. They are refugees in their own land, not cared for by the ‘warring factions’ OR the Uber-Religious Dickheads. Ask DAB why he’s working to support two families … although he probably doesn’t really understand why he must, to simply put food on a table.
    Where is the ‘Lebanese Aid Agency’ verifying the needs of the slowly starving? Ask the guy who’s ‘arranging’ electricity, for one. Or the Mikati with billions in British Businesses. Or the Mouth of the South who owns weapons of massive destruction.
    Far as I’m concerned, there’s a lot of illegitimate ‘factions’ in Lebanon … they can’t even ‘make’ a government FOR the Lebanese. Pack of FatwahHeads fit into that picture too, along with ASSadholes.
    MY opinion … take it or leave it.

  2. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    “The US will be providing an additional $76 million, …”

    And I believe that the Lebanese themselves need some of that. I could name some names in fact. They are refugees in their own land, not cared for by the ‘warring factions’ OR the Uber-Religious Dickheads. Ask DAB why he’s working to support two families … although he probably doesn’t really understand why he must, to simply put food on a table.
    Where is the ‘Lebanese Aid Agency’ verifying the needs of the slowly starving? Ask the guy who’s ‘arranging’ electricity, for one. Or the Mikati with billions in British Businesses. Or the Mouth of the South who owns weapons of massive destruction.

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