Jumblat Warns Against ‘Destructive Calculation’ of Resolution Under Chapter 7
Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat has warned that efforts by some Lebanese parties to resort to Chapter 7 of the U.N. charter would have dangerous consequences on Lebanon.
“This is a destructive calculation,” he said about Premier-designate Najib Miqati’s allegation that some Lebanese were seeking for a U.N. Security Council resolution on Lebanon under Chapter 7.
“This would have dangerous consequences on Lebanon. Let’s not forget that resolution 1559 put Lebanon somehow under international tutelage,” Jumblat told As Safir daily in remarks published Friday.
Chapter 7 allows the Council to "determine the existence of any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression" and to take military and nonmilitary action to "restore international peace and security.”
The Druze leader accused officials at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon of seeking to put Lebanon under “full international tutelage.” He wondered why the court was suddenly seeking for the fingerprints of 4 million Lebanese and for data of all phone calls made among the Lebanese since 2004.
Jumblat announced his backing for the four caretaker ministers who have refused to provide information requested by STL Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare. “Well done,” he said, adding that the data and information had nothing to do with the investigation into ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s assassination.
Without mentioning Caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri, Jumblat advised him to “accept the concept of rotation of power.”
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