Alwaght- Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam says the country’s finance minister and Central Bank governor are working to resolve the issue of US anti-Hezbollah law.
According to Al Manar TV, Salam said Minister Ali Hasan Khalil and Riad Salameh are discussing ways to deal with US financial and banking measures.
The US regulation, which was signed into law in December, targets any individual or institution related to Hezbollah.
Prime Minister Tammam Salam said that the finance minister and Central Bank governor are discussing ways to deal with US financial and banking measures targeting Hezbollah lawmakers and members.
"The matter should remain away from media and political deliberations," Salam told As-Safir newspaper in remarks published Monday.
He pointed out that Khalil and Salameh are working on "resolving the matter," saying that "things are still under control."
Salameh called on Lebanese banks last month to freeze the accounts of all the individuals listed by the US Treasury for alleged connections with Hezbollah.
The decision drew the ire of Hezbollah MPs, with Loyalty to Resistance parliamentary bloc denounced the Lebanese banks’ commitment to the American law, stressing that such move is violation to Lebanon’s sovereignty.
“Decisions recently announced by Central Bank governor Riad Salameh that abides by the US lawn is unjustified submission to the mandatory power on our country,” Loyalty to Resistance bloc said last week in the statement.
Under Saudi pressure, On March 2, the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council, which comprises Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain, and Kuwait, designated Hezbollah as a terrorist group.
The Arab League also under Saudi pressure on 11th March branded Hezbollah resistance a terrorist organization, a decision that was opposed by Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Algeria and Tunisia.
