March 14 Denies it is Seeking STL Funding through Draft Law
The March 14-led opposition has denied that it is seeking to propose a draft law in parliament to fund the Special Tribunal for Lebanon if the government fails to take such an action.
MPs Marwan Hamadeh and George Adwan and March 14 general-secretariat coordinator Fares Soaid told An Nahar daily on Friday that the opposition is not mulling to propose a draft law.
March 14 considers the government responsible for funding the STL and implementing Lebanon’s international commitments, they said.
Their denial came a day after An Nahar said that the March 14 camp is discussing the possibility of presenting a draft law to the parliament to fund the tribunal similar to Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun’s move on the issue of the electricity project.
Lebanon is obligated to pay a 49 percent share of the funds of the STL, which was created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution, at Lebanon's request, to try those responsible for ex-Premier Rafik Hariri's Feb. 2005 assassination.
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