Aoun Criticizes Saniora for Boycotting Damascus and Participating in Dakar

Free Patriotic Movement leader Gen. Michel Aoun on Monday criticized Premier Fouad Saniora for boycotting the Damascus summit and claimed that a plan has been adopted in Switzerland to naturalize Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.

 

Aoun, talking to reporters after a regular meeting by members of his Change and Reform parliamentary bloc, asked “why did Saniora go to Senegal (For the Islamic Summit) and did not go to Syria (for the Arab Summit)?”

He accused the majority premier of “cheating the people.”

 

Aoun also claimed that a plan was “adopted in Switzerland in 1996 for the gradual naturalization” of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, but failed to say who adopted the alleged agenda.

 

Lebanon”s population structure, according to Aoun, “cannot absorb any naturalization.”

 

“Would the Americans accept to naturalize 42 million people in one batch?” he asked.

 

He accused the “Americans and Europeans of linking Lebanon”s cause to the Middle East (conflict) after the July war” of 2006 between Hizbullah and Israel.

 

He criticized the March 14 majority for accusing him of being an ally of Iran, asking: “Is Gen. Aoun”s participation in the government an Iranian condition?”