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| Disputes Delay Appointments to Wed. as Govt. OKs Saudi Grant, Renews Terms of Salameh's Deputies | |
| 2014-04-01 | |
| [AnNahar] The cabinet on Monday postponed appointing Internal Security Forces acting chief Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Basbous and acting Prosecutor General Samir Hammoud as full-term civil servants following a dispute that prompted the suspension of the meeting for around an hour. However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... the council of ministers managed to approve several key resolutions after the session was resumed, including the renewal of the terms of the deputy central bank governors, accepting the $3 billion Saudi donation to the army
According to Information Minister Ramzi Jreij, discussions over the rest of appointments were postponed to a session that will be held on Wednesday. As Monday's session got underway, the ministers of the March 8 forces ... the opposition to the Mar. 14th movement, consisting of Hizbullah and its allies, so-called in commemoration of their Mar. 8th, 2006 demonstration of strength in Beirut ... rejected approving the pending administrative appointments in a "partial" manner. "President Michel Suleiman ...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too... insisted that the security appointments must happen tonight in order to implement the approved security plan," LBCI TV reported. But "Hizbullah ... Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... and a number of March 8 ministers insisted that the appointments must be approved as one package and not separately," LBCI added. And after media reports said the session was suspended due to a clash over the file of oil exploration, the TV network pointed out that the meeting was stopped before embarking on the topic. "Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Basbous is supposed to be appointed as full-term commander of the ISF," Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi said before the session, as Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq stressed that "the appointments will be approved today." LBCI had reported before the resumption of the session that Health Minister Wael Abou Faour and Industry Minister Hussein Hajj Hassan carried out contacts to "resolve the dispute and approve the appointments of Basbous and Hammoud tonight." "The cabinet is a consensus cabinet and everything in it must be addressed through consensus, including appointments," Hajj Hassan, who represents Hizbullah in the government, said. "We in Hizbullah are facilitating things and the issue is inclined to be resolved," he noted. Abou Faour earlier announced that the cabinet would debate the issue of the oil exploration decrees, amid expected disputes over contracts and maritime oil exploration blocs. | |
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