Dans ce câble de janvier 2007, le France envisage l’idée de geler l’enquête internationale sur la mort de #Rafic_Hariri (éventuellement à la demande de #Saniora), dans le but d’obtenir l’accord de l’opposition (#Hezbollah en tête) sur les «réformes économiques» (comprendre: libéralisation supplémentaire) nécessaires à l’obtention de prêts internationaux.
►http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/cable/2007/01/07PARIS257.html
"Lebanon: Putting the Tribunal on Ice
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¶2. (S) The Ambassador hosted French NSA-equivalent Maurice
Gourdault-Montagne (MGM) for breakfast on January 22. MGM
cheerfully reviewed preparations for the January 25 Lebanon
Conference, saying France would announce a contribution of
500 million euros, while Germany would pledge somewhere in
the neighborhood of 80 million euros. He observed with
pleasure that British FM Beckett was now planning to attend
(a reversal he gratefully attributed to U.S. encouragement).
The only disappointment, he said, was Russia, which would be
represented by Special Middle East Envoy Saltanov, even
though FM Lavrov’s schedule could have permitted him to
attend at least the opening session.
¶3. (S) MGM said he saw little chance of resolving Lebanon’s
domestic political crisis prior to the Lebanese presidential
election in November 2007. Consequently, some had raised the
idea of “putting the tribunal in the freezer” until that
time, in hopes that a delay in setting up the tribunal would
aid PM Siniora to break the political deadlock. “Of course,
we (neither he nor Chirac) are not advocating this idea,” MGM
stressed at several points. Nevertheless, he continued, the
Lebanese themselves might ask the French and the U.S. to put
the tribunal on ice, in part because Siniora would need the
opposition’s help in order to deliver the economic reforms
that the GOL is promising at this week’s conference. The
only other option, MGM continued, would be to change the
scope of the tribunal itself — something France found
unacceptable. When pressed on why the French were
contemplating a change in their approach to the tribunal at
this point — especially when it was unclear that Lebanon’s
opposition had the upper hand — MGM made another (and
somewhat jumbled) reference to the need to obtain the
opposition’s support for economic reform."
Oui, quand il s’agit de promouvoir le #néolibéralisme au #Liban, là on peut s’assoir sur ses principes.