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| Kouchner: France Unwilling to Back a Lebanese Agreement to Annul the STL |
| 2010-10-27 |
| [An Nahar] French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner on Tuesday denied that France was willing to "back a Lebanese agreement that would annul the Special Tribunal for Leb," reiterating his country's support for international justice. After meeting with Speaker Nabih KnobbyBerri, the Hizbullah sock puppet in Gay Paree, Kouchner stressed that "no country can influence the tribunal and no one knows the content of the indictment." He described the so-called false witnesses issue as an "additional" problem that the Lebanese judiciary must look into. The French minister hoped that "Premier Saad Hariri's government is not at risk" so that Leb does not go back to "the previous impasse." He said that Berri, for his part, does not think that the government is in jeopardy. Kouchner said that Leb "is living a period of relative tension, compared to the previous stages of tension." Commenting on the recent visit of Iran's diminutive President Mahmoud Short RoundAhmadinejad to Leb, the French minister said "it went good protocol-wise, but it didn't contribute to pacification, because what he said in South Leb were not words of peace." On the other hand, Kouchner voiced his willingness to organize a conference that would gather the Lebanese parties in France, an initiative that was welcomed by Berri, according to the French minister. France's "relation with Syria is fine and Leb is part of the region," Kouchner said, adding that Gay Paree "does not separate the Lebanese crisis from the situation in the region, and discussions with the Lebanese do not only tackle the domestic issues, but also the rest of the dossiers." |
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