Layyoun: Mikati’s stance over STL funding is his personal opinion

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Culture Minister Gaby Layyoun told New TV on Thursday that Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s position regarding paying Lebanon’s share of funding to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) expresses the PM’s personal opinion.

“The STL was illegally and unconstitutionally established,” Layyoun said and added that the “position Mikati announced in New York expresses the PM’s personal opinion.”

Layyoun is a member of the Free Partiotic Movement which is headed by MP Michel Aoun, a close ally of Hezbollah.

The Iranian and Syrian-backed Hezbollah which along with its March 8 allies dominates the Lebanon’s cabinet has opposed a clause in the Lebanese annual state budget pertaining to the funding of the tribunal which is probing the 2005 assassination of Lebanon’s former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

Four Hezbollah members have been indicted by the STL but the leader of Shiite group denied the charges and vowed not to cooperate with the court.

President Michel Suleiman and Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s declared during their visits to the UN headquarters in New York that Lebanon is committed to all international resolutions including STL .

Lebanon contributes 49 percent of the STL’s annual funding.

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14 responses to “Layyoun: Mikati’s stance over STL funding is his personal opinion”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar

    All the LOONS in the same nest …

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    All the LOONS in the same nest …

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    All the LOONS in the same nest …

  4. so, a prime minister in lebanon is not entitled to use his opinion for decision making ?. he is simply a suni symbolic figure that gets told what to do by buddy or  freddy.
     no wonder harriri did not fit in and got dethroned, he used his own mind instead of going along with the program.

  5. so, a prime minister in lebanon is not entitled to use his opinion fo decision making ?. he is simply a suni symbolic figure that gets told what to do by buddy or  freddy.
     no wonder harriri did not fit in and got dethroned, he used his own mind instead of going along with the program.

  6. ruu7 ndabb There is NOTHING cultural about you Mr. ayyroun…

  7. ruu7 ndabb There is NOTHING cultural about you Mr. ayyroun…

  8. ruu7 ndabb There is NOTHING cultural about you Mr. ayyroun…

  9. Patience2 Avatar

    One by one, the dirtbags ruffle their feathers, look close and you’ll see HA lice falling out of them!

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    One by one, the dirtbags ruffle their feathers, look close and you’ll see HA lice falling out of them!

  11. The STL has been doing its job ever since it was established and it will continue!!This is a fact!!!

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    The STL has been doing its job ever since it was established and it will continue!!This is a fact!!!

  13. MeYosemite Avatar

    How much was he paid to say that?

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    How much was he paid to say that?

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