Policy Statement Committee Tackles Financial Clauses but Not STL
Prime Minister Najib Miqati on Thursday presided over the fourth meeting of the ministerial committee tasked with drafting the Policy Statement of the new government.
The meeting did not tackle the controversial clause on the U.N.-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon. However, briefing reporters after the meeting, Information Minister Walid al-Daouq denied that the conferees had decided to leave the issue to the country’s national dialogue committee.
The clause “will be included in the Policy Statement, but we have not started to discuss it yet,” said Daouq, noting that the committee discussed economic and financial clauses.
The minister added that the committee will likely need to hold three or four more meetings to finalize the statement.
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