Syria Wants “Full Basket Consensus” in Lebanon

Syrian Information Minister Mohsen Bilal said Wednesday Damascus would facilitate Arab League chief Amr Moussa”s mission in Lebanon to achieve “full basket consensus.”

 

The Lebanese state-run National News Agency (NNA) said Bilal made the remark at a news conference in Damascus.

 

“Arab efforts to achieve consensus among the Lebanese brethren are a real chance to overcome the crisis that hampers the functioning of its constitutional institutions,” Bilal said.

 

“The existing presidential void and political escalation in Lebanon raise concerns by all friends and brethren,” He added.

 

Syria, according to Bilal, “would work to participate in bringing to success the mission of the Arab League secretary general aimed at narrowing the gap separating viewpoints of the Lebanese parties in line with the concept of full basket consensus, the road map to which has been set by the Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo.”