Aoun: No Agreement on STL Funding between Lebanon, Security Council
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Free Patriotic Movement Leader MP Michel Aoun renewed his rejection to finance the Special Tribunal for Lebanon on Wednesday, assuring that he is ready to “prosecute the ones who will fund it.”
In an interview with Radio Monte Carlo, Aoun said that “there is no agreement between Lebanon and the U.N. Security Council on the STL”, adding that the decision to establish the tribunal came from one side and was imposed on Lebanon under Chapter seven of the U.N. Charter.
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea had declared on Wednesday that there is a “cooperation protocol between Lebanon and the STL”, stating that “Aoun was part of the previous governments which had funded the Tribunal since 2009.”
On Lebanese PM Najib Miqati’s assurance on “Lebanon’s commitment to the International obligations, including the STL funding”, Aoun said that “there is no agreement, and his pledge was wrong”, assuring that Miqati will be” held responsible if he pays from the Lebanese treasury.”
The FPM leader stressed that he opposes the STL because it is “illegal, and I am ready to prosecute anyone who funds it,” pointing out that “we do not want to pay Lebanon’s share of STL funding because this has been imposed on us.”
When asked about the situation in Syria, Aoun said that “the resistance switched from a peaceful objection to an armed one," adding that "if the purpose was to topple the regime by force and with foreign assistance, then we reject this because there should be stability and we want the Syrians to live in peace.”
05 October 2011, 23:51
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There is an agreement, BUT IT IS ILLEGAL. What does this mean? It means that there is no agreement. What does this mean? It means tha we, THE PEOPLE, will not pay. Those who want to throw money away are welcome to do so from their own pockets. We are BROKE and we cannot even afford to pay rent, tuition, food, medicine.... NOTHING. SO LEAVE US ALONE. AGAIN, LEAVE US ALONE. End of story.
06 October 2011, 01:08
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Aoun has sold out to the dark side while in France. He must now protects the dark forces that killed Harriri. M8 does not want uncovered in the court with proof, that the court of public opinion alread knows.
06 October 2011, 01:23
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Look at his eyes...at his face...at his behaviour...
HE IS MENTALLY ILL....! Pity, some doctor must see him and take him to Deir El Saliib....
06 October 2011, 02:02
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If Bassil was assisinated, would not you have funded it? The. Country you once protected lost 5 to 10 big figures, are you protecting the killers? Or you have a magical fatwa to discover killers now? The UN appointed team will find those killers so stop making noise and worry about the electricity fund you were given and make ALL citizens benefit from this project and not just your entourage and non paying citizens who deserve no electricity at all.
06 October 2011, 05:08
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This guy is the hitler of the middleast. Anyone who follows him or works for him is either money hungry of plain stupid.
06 October 2011, 06:01
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It's impossible to get from you any type of constructive criticism. Is it because you have nothing useful to say or you're just filled with hatred?
In all case, whether you realize it or not, the funding from the STL comes from your pocket, and people have the right to have diverging opinions of the usefulness of funding this "court" which time after time have shown major signs of corruption.
I'd rather have 50 million dollars spent on extracting oil, enriching our country!
06 October 2011, 07:12
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I think this clown should abandon the comb-over, it's not really working anymore. Those last few threads of hair look very lonely. He should just embrace the baldness.
There's something dishonest about a comb-over anyways, it's like pretending to be something that you're not. Sort of like Mowaten, Bigidiot, MrNoBrain, and Jabalamel pretending to be regular "Lebanese" citizens, who happen to post anti-M14 comments on a pro-M14 website 24/7. Weird huh?
06 October 2011, 07:58
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يتفضل الجنرال وحكومته يكشفوا هويت القاتل ويقدم أدلة أفضل من المحكمة ونحن كلنا معو
06 October 2011, 08:06
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En verité, la majorité des parlementaires etait bien prete a voter l'accord avec le tribunal, et moi ça me suffit pour le considerer legal.
06 October 2011, 10:59
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he may be crazy, he may be senile and old (actually he surely is) and he is bald and those hair looks ridicilous, but he's not traitor.
06 October 2011, 11:41
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This TRAITOR and his Sheep support HIZBUSTAN more than hizbustanis themselves. Look at him he is gonna blow a Gasket. What a joke you and your "Moutons de Panurge" are. You are selling whatever is left of Lebanon's Dignity to the "Basij" and "Shabbiha" Murderers. Tell your Friends to pay their Electric Bills. Your days are numbered. Can't wait.
06 October 2011, 11:42
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The victims were not militia members, they did not live by terror, they did not have blood on their hands...don't you forget that!
06 October 2011, 11:43
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Roddani do you think he is worried about you or your family. the money that will be paid is going out of the money he was planning on embezzling. tell, is you pension going to be reduced, is your state sponsored tuition going to be cut? oh i forgot. they dont exist. the money we pay in taxes are going to their pockets. so its ok, im willing to give the STL a shot.
the least this moron can do is have the decency to shut up when he's taking the government for a 1.2 billion dollar joyride dont you think?
06 October 2011, 11:47
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@incorruptible
So this is the kind of country you want to live in? A country where you can assasinate for political reasons and get out of it? A country where terror and assasination attempts are not punished? A country where bombs go off and terrorists are not troubled?
You talk about money when you should think about innocent lives lost...
You talk about funding oil extraction while women, children, families and friends are still grieving... Just think about the tens of innocent pedestrians that were killed or injured during this period of terror!
SHAME ON YOU!
06 October 2011, 11:50
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I fully agree with "iNcooruptible" that first we must move to higher standards in our criticism, away from just insults that doesn't lead anywhere, and second that all of us will be paying for this tribunal (whether we are with or against), while I believe the same money, if used properly, would "clean-up" the judiciary system in Lebanon, and we would no longer have to beg for international justice, and end up paying for it! This is scandal.
06 October 2011, 11:58
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the filthy zionist information war department saw my message so they felt obliged to put 3 more of theirs.
like it means something
06 October 2011, 16:42
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He IS corrupted (of course....how can you doubt??? All around him are highly corrupted people from imbassil, to Simon, to Nabil, to Alain, to raffuul, to own daughters, ...etc. etc. all have made millions ..of course he is ENTIRELY aware !!! He keeps shouting he is against corruption for the idiots who are still following him !!!!).
ABOVE all: he IS a traitor, 3amiil, and agent ....who has sold his SOUL for becoming the underdog of the divine party and the syrians...
May God forgive him...if HE CAN still forgive him !!!!
06 October 2011, 16:46
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Yesterday, M.P. Marwan Hamadeh accused him for STEALING (exact word) the money and taking it to Paris !!!!
Soon, all the corruption about "Little Hitler" will become crystal clear...
07 October 2011, 22:13
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@ Mr. Aoun please shut the fudge up. Please go treat your cancerous brain tumor before it is too late, preferably get the treatment in France.
Take all the millions you stole and run like the wind is my advice to you.
@ jabal habal, I guess someone had a bad lunch and vomited this disgusting puddle of je ne sais quoi that is YOU….stay right there dear, I am coming over with a bucket 90 % Dettol and 10 % water to mop you up. What a sorry F’up you are. A real sorry excuse for a human being that belongs in the sewer.
08 October 2011, 12:44
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Of course it's illegal. sanioura should be sued for treason and executed for that. He and the stupid, aloof, disgrace to lebanon saad,had nO right to write the UN without parliament approval. The excuse that parliament wasn't in session is no justification for such an action. Hariri is one of hundreds killed and to spend 300-400 million dollars to investigate his death is outrageous!! We pay 4 billion dollars year, 50% of budget, to service hariris debt. It's unfortunate that he was killed but it was good riddance to bad rubbish for Lebanon.
