Russia to Thwart U.N. Sanctions on Lebanon Should it Fail to Fund STL
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Russia will likely veto any United Nations Security Council action against Lebanon should it fail to fund the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, reported the daily al-Liwaa on Saturday.
An informed source told the daily that Syrian and Iranian circles view Russia and China’s veto of a U.N. resolution against Syria’s deadly crackdown on protests earlier this week as a turning point in relations between them.
It explained: “Hizbullah and its allies have acquired information about the nature of the Russia-Iranian understanding, which is linked to a Russian rockets deal, as well as financial and oil agreements, given the western sanctions against the Syrian regime.”
“The situation in Lebanon has become, now more than ever, more linked to the situation in Syria, and therefore Hizbullah is seeking to demonstrate that failure to fund the STL will not lead to U.N. sanctions under chapter seven of its charter,” it added.
“Russia has repeatedly declared that it supports the tribunal, but it will thwart any Security Council action over Lebanon’s failure to fund it,” it continued.
Sides that support the funding have however voiced their disagreement over the party’s view of the matter, asserting that Prime Minister Najib Miqati was clear in committing to the funding in order to avoid sanctions and having Lebanon being labeled as a failed state.
Al-Liwaa reported that efforts are underway to withdraw this issue from media speculation in order to reach middle ground between Lebanon’s commitments over the STL and Hizbullah and the Free Patriotic Movement’s refusal to fund it.
Sources monitoring the situation ruled out the possibility that the government would be toppled in order for Hizbullah and the FPM to reach their goals, because its overthrow would allow their March 14 rivals to regain the governmental majority.
08 October 2011, 10:32
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... And what good would that do on the local scene if all hell breaks loose and the govt of Mikati falls apart...? Those Russian clowns are trying to take center stage and compete with the regional despotic regimes of Iran and Syria to dictate what Lebanon can do and cannot do... That is hypocrisy at its best...
All these clowns should leave Lebanon alone and put their local terror group on a leash because the future is looking bleak...
08 October 2011, 14:07
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the zionist information war department can learn from this article that lebanon's diversity can be it's strenght.
you cannot isolate us because we can find allies everywhere.
tomorrow iran and russia and zionists tomorrow eu and usa against syrian influence. but we must get rid of zionist greed before dealing with syrian influence.
08 October 2011, 16:28
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Whether the Hezb Ebola government choses to fund the STL or not this will not stop the court and the funding will come from somewhere else, and the criminal Iranian party will be made to pay the "Loan" with interrest from its siezed assets when time comes. The international committee needs to make it clear for everyone, since there's nothing that this criminal Iranian militia would love better than to get Lebanon Isolated from the Free World so that it could presented it on a silver platter to its masters the criminal Iranian regime, an attitude shared by their bosses in Tehran and Damascus as well as anyone who wishes to harm Lebanon. The STL POWERS ON AND JUSTICE WILL BE SERVED COMEWHAT MAY!!
08 October 2011, 18:50
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Russia can stop things temporarily, but ASSad will fall, and then the Hezz are finished, which in turn will create a big loss for Russia in the region.
08 October 2011, 20:19
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Bravo the great Russia . Bye bye Mahkama . Bye bye Hariri . Bye bye corruption .
08 October 2011, 20:27
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i again agree with the local genius learned intellectual jabalamel he's right as was the great asteez nabih berri, we should rid of the zionist isolationists starting with the zionist infested closed sectarian isolationist iranian terrorists so called resistance once and for all they are the cause for the failed state
08 October 2011, 22:39
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anyway walid jumblat will declare sunday evening , that
if we dont fund the STL his ministers will leave the gvmt and the new majority will fall back into minority.
09 October 2011, 00:28
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le phenician: you are a neo-nazi suni hater and your true colors are revealed every time you open your racsit hole, bye bye hariri means you have killed hariri plain and simple and i know you wish his son be killed too, and i know you want bashar to use chemical weapons against all the sunis , you and the likes of you want to see sunis go through a hollocaust.. be a man and say it fag!! the sunis are the vast majority in the Arab world donkey, and the Arabs are going through an historic awakening, the NAZIS like you, bashar and GMA can not stop the tide and will be swept away unless you change course.
