11 juillet 2008
Hizbullah gets veto power in Lebanon
Lebanon's prime minister formed a national unity Cabinet on Friday after six weeks of wrangling over how to distribute posts among members of the country's Western-backed parliamentary majority and the Hizbullah-led opposition. Plans for the 30-member Cabinet were laid out in an Arab League-brokered deal in May, which also gave Hizbullah and its allies veto power over all government decisions. It gave 16 Cabinet seats to the parliament majority, 11 to the opposition and three to be distributed by the... [Lire la suite]
