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Bargaining Chip No More?
December 6, 2006 · Mustapha Hamoui
The Baker-Hamilton commission also known as the Iraq Study Group (ISG) will recommend that Lebanon be kept out of the bargaining between the US and Syria and Iran.
An-American official who “co-drafted” the report has leaked to An-nahar, Lebanon’s best selling newspaper, that the commission will recommend the implementations of UNR 1559 and 1701, which demand the disarming of Hezbollah and consider the Lahhoud Presidency unconstitutional. The ISG will also recommend continuing the UN investigations into the various political assassinations that shook this country.
According to the Source, the report will stress the importance of Lebanon’s independence and sovereignty.
It is still unclear whether Lebanon’s independence is one of the strategic objectives of the report, or whether the tough talking is simply a way of strengthening the American bargaining position before the negotiations actually begin.