Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah: opposed to STL but won't make trouble

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01-12-2011 | 14:28
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Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah: opposed to STL but won't make trouble

Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah spoke on Thursday night to discuss "political rhetoric in Lebanon" as well as the STL funding issue.            

Nasrallah opened his speech by slamming Future Movement's recent media campaign, calling on the opposition party to stop their campaign of "religious incitement" and to stop making "careless accusations", adding that, "political differences should not turn into religious conflict".              

On Syria, the Hezbollah chief accused the media in Lebanon, the Arab region and the rest of the world of trying to "portray events in Syria as a sectarian conflict, although they are not".           
The focus of his televised address commemorating the Shi'ite Muslim of Ashoura, however, was on Lebanon's recent funding of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.              

Nasrallah said he disagreed with the prime minister's agreement to fund Lebanon's share of the cost of a U.N.-backed court investigating the killing of statesman Rafik al-Hariri, but that his party and its allies would not act against it.             

He called Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s recent public statements that he is fully committed to upholding Lebanon’s international commitments including funding the STL as “embarrassing” and that he did not consult his ministers prior to giving the statement and failed to represent their wishes.            

On the nearly $34 million paid by Lebanon to the STL, Nasrallah said that the pressure to pay up was "only for provocation” and “the Tribunal has enough funds to carry on without a contribution from Lebanon."           

"We stress our firm rejection of the legality and constitutionality of funding the court or cooperating with it in any way, but we will not cause a problem in the country and we will serve the higher national interest". 

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