Reports: Assad ‘Personally’ Intervened to Fund STL
Syrian President Bashar Assad personally intervened to persuade Hizbullah to fund the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, revealed the Kuwaiti al-Seyassah daily on Saturday.
March 8 circles told the daily that the Syrian president sought to fund the STL in order to preserve Prime Minister Najib Miqati’s government because the Syrian regime considers it as a “necessity.”
To this end, Assad recently held talks with Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Health Minister Ali Hasan Khalil in a meeting that lasted three hours, they continued.
These talks were preceded by high-ranking Iranian contacts, they added.
The daily said that Khalil spent two days in Damascus to discuss the issue of the funding, as well as other issues related to some Lebanese officials’ positions on the Syrian crisis.
Miqati announced on Wednesday that he transferred Lebanon’s share of the funding of the tribunal to the court, while Nasrallah on Thursday rejected the funding, renewing Hizbullah’s opposition to the tribunal.
The party has deemed the STL an American-Israeli product aimed at destroying Hizbullah.
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