Aoun Rejects STL Funding: No One Can Make Illegal Commitments, Impose Them
"Change and Reform Bloc" Leader MP Michel Aoun stressed on Monday that his parliamentary bloc fully rejects the STL funding in a stance that "is independent from the position of other parties."
"No to the funding of the tribunal no matter what the stances of our political allies are," Aoun declared.
In an interview with "an-Nahar" daily, Aoun clarified that "this stance is our own and is independent from that of other parties," adding that "Hizbullah could agree to fund the STL but we don't."
"It is a matter of principle. We can't pay money to the STL without an understanding or an agreement between us and the United Nations Security Council," the head of the Change and Reform bloc emphasized.
Explaining that rejection to fund the STL doesn't mean that he was against justice or the trial of former PM Rafik Hariri's suspected assassins, Aoun said that the "tribunal funds were being spent illegally."
He slammed the STL as illegitimate for being established by under chapter 7 of the UN charter.
"This happens only if there was a danger to international peace but this danger never existed," Aoun added.
Commenting on PM's Mikati and Finance Minister Mohammed Safadi's position from the STL, Aoun said: "They are violating the laws and the Lebanese constitution."
"No one can make illegal commitments and impose them on me. Let them pay from their own wealth."
Refuting rumors that the government would collapse over the dispute on the funding, Aoun stressed that the government's existence was not in danger.
"Those who want to leave the government over the funding have already planned to get out of it," Aoun said, adding "no one can extort us internationally and scare us."
On the Syrian developments, Aoun announced that the Syrian regime has crossed the line of danger.
The Syrian people should "choose between calm democratic change and blood," he said, adding: "I believe the majority wants calm progress that's why President Bashar al-Assad's reform program is getting enough support."
Source:"an-Nahar" Lebanese daily
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