Burst Government: Hariri, Lebanon is to continue governing VRST

Hezbollah has to burst the coalition in Beirut, Lebanon threatens chaos. , pending a new government, Prime Minister Hariri but VRST should remain in office. The international community calls on all parties to resolve the political crisis peacefully. The purpose of the fallen by Hezbollah and its allies, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri took office to continue until there is a new government from at least the next few weeks are now to be regulated - Beirut / Istanbul - As the political future of Lebanon looks like the long term is unclear There.


The President Michel Suleiman said on Thursday, one day after Hariri's opponents, the government brought by the resignation of 11 ministers of the 30-case basis. The government was regarded as "failed," Suleiman said, according to the state news agency NNA. He invited the remaining members of the government, "as a transitional government as long to attend to continue their duties until a new government is formed.

Suleiman must now begin discussions with the parties to explore the possibilities of forming a new Cabinet. Background of the government crisis is the refusal of Hariri, to distance themselves from the UN tribunal which is to determine the assassination of his father. The former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri was killed in February 2005 by a bomb attack.

The UN process will reportedly be charged under several senior members of the Iran-allied Shiite movement Hezbollah. The indictment will be forthcoming later this month. Strongly criticized the withdrawal of Hezbollah came from the Government of the United States and the UN. Barack Obama said: "The efforts of the coalition led by Hezbollah to topple the Lebanese government, only their own show fear." The U.S.

State Department called the move by Hezbollah a "transparent effort" to "undermine the stability and progress in Lebanon." The Hariri tribunal is independent and should not be used for political objectives or to intimidate, Foreign Ministry spokesman Philip Crowley. At a meeting on Wednesday in Washington U.S.

President Barack Obama and Saad Hariri together for the independence of Lebanon from the Iranian and Syrian influence was pronounced. Both countries support Hezbollah. The UN called for respect for the investigation into the murder of Rafik al-Hariri. The Commission is an independent body and must be respected, a spokesman said in New York.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon called for a continued dialogue between all parties, and demanded respect for the Constitution and the laws of the country. Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (FDP), meanwhile, appealed to political groups in Lebanon to behave responsibly and constructively.

But he stressed the importance of the UN tribunal. Similarly, the comments from Brussels: The European Union has called on the parties of the country to a peaceful settlement of political crisis. The leaders argue that the withdrawal of the Shiite Hezbollah movement from the cabinet of Prime Minister Saad Hariri find a "negotiated solution," EU foreign minister Catherine Ashton said in Brussels.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged the international community to do considering the independence of the country and all its institutions to resolve the crisis. He was received on Thursday Prime Minister Hariri in Paris to discuss with him about the crisis. Lebanese media reported that the Israeli army had released on Thursday a shepherd who was abducted from her the day before on Lebanese territory.

Israel had objected to his representation of the Lebanese people and said that the Lebanese man was arrested on the Israeli side of the border.

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