Geagea: Tampering with STL Funding Stirs Dormant Strife
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea warned on Wednesday the parliamentary majority against ignoring the will of the majority of the Lebanese people regarding the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.
He said after holding talks with MP Fouad Saad: “The current majority’s ongoing tampering with the issue of the funding of the STL will awaken the dormant strife.”
“Ignoring this issue will increase the national divide and will lead to an international boycott of Lebanon and sanctions against the country,” he cautioned.
On Syria’s repeated incursions into Lebanese territory, the LF leader held Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour and other officials responsible for the situation.
“They are dealing lightly with this issue even though a case such as the country’s sovereignty should not be treated as a joke,” Geagea stressed.
He emphasized the importance of coordination between the Lebanese and Syrian armies in order to avoid errors.
Addressing the ongoing debate over increasing minimum wage, he suggested that this matter can be resolved through the formation of a joint committee that includes two or three ministers and representatives of employers and labor unions.
These officials would be charged with devising a plan to follow up on the economic situation and reach appropriate solution to problems, said Geagea.
Furthermore, he noted that the rise in transportation tariffs, school tuition fees, and prices of consumer goods that accompanied the increase of minimum wage by LL 200,000 “is a sign of a lack of a clear economic plan.”
“It is an indication of the government’s great confusion in that the minimum wage increase was not positively met at all,” he continued.
He warned that maintaining the current policy will subject Lebanon to the same dangers of bankruptcy other countries are suffering from.
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@canaanite
NO WAY!
this is our country!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they should leave :)
they already have WAMET 3ar while being exposed as the murderors of Hariri, and murderors belong either in jail or they should flee.
in their case: go to iran :)
over 12 years
Just give them the south and be done with them...!!
over 12 years
Correction: WASMET 3AR :)
they are just assasins..... exposed :)
over 12 years
I agree with Canaanite. Give them the south!They can fight Israel then as much as they want while we do business, drink, open more casinos, party, and build a strong Monaco like state!
over 12 years
well then, if I understand correctly, you are proposing a federation?
the problem with that is they are all over the country with their weapons, and lately in tripoli, after being in Sannine and ouyoun el simane.....
how do you propose to solve this problem?
over 12 years
The fact is we live in multi lebanon(s), there was a movement in 2005 under march 14 that united many lebanese under the dream of a WATAN.. but until the majority of shee3a understand that they should belong to the watan and not to iran the dream will never be a reality... it took the Sunas so much destruction to divorce the PLO and choose lebanon..will it take the Shee3a community another civil war to choose lebanon..? i predict yes..and i predict a suni military party emerging in the north after the fall of Assad (end of the monopoly of weapons is really around the corner). I hope i am wrong, but the idea that the hizbustan will give up arms for state is an illusion, and the fact that shee3as are behind the murder of hariri is no small matter either.. it is an explosion waiting to happen.
over 12 years
Yaaaa mustaqbal...
You're scared!
over 12 years
@ geha
No, the problem is that the world will never accept to group the shiia all in the south! If it was possible, things would get done naturally, the ones living in the North would choose to go to the south according to the life style they wish...etc...
I don't see this as being a huge problem. It would probably take a couple of decades to settle things...
over 12 years
PS: We would keep the good shiia with us, and there are A LOT of them! Do not confuse Hezbollah with shiia!!
over 12 years
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
every church that is built on this blessed Muslim land stirs sectarian strife ya doctor criminal
over 12 years
ya mustaqbal, u cant do it eh
over 12 years
The patriot, 99 % of shias vote either 4 hezballah or amal so who are the good shia? Have u ever met a shia who isent with either hezb or amal? The only one i can think of is a leftist who is agaonst all current political parties in lebanon.
over 12 years
elie: the day the hezbollah will have no more weapons to terrorize people, you ll see how many shiia will still support them!
just like in syria where they tell us that 99% of the people support their great leader!
when you have a gun pointed at your head, you do as you are told to do....
and they are many shiia who are against the hezb, more than you think!
over 12 years
@Elie
You would be surprised! I know quite a few, yes, & they hate the Hezbollah more than u & I do.
over 12 years
Strife, Prife, Balloutife..... NO FUNDING wel sama zar2a. End of story, brainless, gutless baldy.
over 12 years
also i have seen some halucinations about "good shia".
some people from zionist information war department forgot that SLA is history.
over 12 years
the halucinatory zionist information war department saw their most dear creature on an nahar and they are so happy that they wrote zillions of post praising him.
what a waste of time. you guys consider doing something useful?
over 12 years
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over 12 years
Good Shia are those from the glorious Lebanese Amel that fought foreigners like Iranian Hezeb Zbelleh and the palastinian invaders.
ya hakim, we live in a banana country.....
the sooner these thugs leave the government and the country, the better it will be.....