MoU with Tribunal Torpedoed this Week”s Cabinet Session
This week”s cabinet session was postponed after minority ministers threatened to use veto power on a Memorandum of Understanding with the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, a well-informed source told al-Liwaa newspaper.
The source said the memorandum with the tribunal”s prosecutor office was a source of disagreement among majority and minority ministers who threatened to put it for voting and use veto power if the majority insisted on having the MoU on the cabinet agenda.
Al-Liwaa said the opposition still rejects the MoU although its ministers haven”t made any comments or proposed any amendments to its text.
The memorandum, proposed by the justice ministry, seeks to regulate relations between the Lebanese judiciary and the tribunal”s general prosecutor.