Michel Murr: Arab Initiative in the Christians” Interest

MP Michel Murr on Wednesday said the Arab initiative should be implemented and Gen. Michel Suleiman should be elected president in favor of the Christians” interest and that of Lebanon.

 

Murr, talking to reporters after a meeting with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, also voiced objection to a proposal by Free Patriotic Movement leader Gen. Michel Aoun on the formation of a national unity government based on a 5+11+14 recipe.

 

“I”ve said that this formula wouldn”t work because it had been proposed, and rejected. Why should we propose ideas that had been rejected. I told Gen. Aoun that had this formula been adopted the Arabs wouldn”t have met,” Murr said.

 

The Arab initiative, adopted by foreign ministers in their Cairo meeting last Saturday, was “in favor of all the Lebanese, and especially in favor of the Christians, in its first clause,” Murr said.

 

The plan, he added, gives the president powers that he has not enjoyed throughout the Taef accord era “and this is in the interest of the Christians.”

 

“It is our duty to welcome the initiative and work on solving our problems. The Lebanese had enough of the (presidential) void,” Murr added.

 

Murr stressed on the fact that he is “an ally in the Change and Reform parliamentary bloc headed by Aoun, but this does not mean that I am integrated in the FPM.