Hezbollah dismisses West’s STL threats
The Lebanese resistance movement of Hezbollah has dismissed the West’s pressures on the Lebanese government to continue funding the US-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), Press TV reports.
Earlier, representatives from the US and the EU urged the Lebanese government to fulfill what they say is Lebanon’s commitment to fund the STL in a meeting with the country’s officials in the capital Beirut.
The western officials threatened that Lebanon’s government would face ”serious consequences” if it refuses to continue funding the tribunal.
Head of Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc Muhammad Raad, however, said the threats are part of an intimidation campaign to violate Lebanon’s sovereignty.
”The US is trying to intimidate us with these so-called consequences, so that we fall into this trap and fund the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, which does not serve the best interest of our country,” Raad said on Friday.
The US-backed STL was established to look into the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Premier Rafiq Hariri.
Hezbollah’s Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah has also recently stressed that his party and its allies would not support financing the STL, declaring that if the cabinet did not reach consensus, the issue would be put to vote in the parliament.
Source: presstv.ir
