Soueid warns against inter-Christian strife

 

March 14 General Secretariat coordinator Fares Soueid addressed members of parliament following Speaker Nabih Berri’s Amal Movement, Hezbollah and MP General Michel Aoun’s Free Patriotic Movement, saying that “advertising shows” outside the parliament house were useless.

 

Soueid accused Berri of attempting to place responsibility for the Lebanese stalemate on the majority by “accusing them of smuggling quorums.”

In an interview with the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation, the former MP said that the two Kataeb activists who died in the Zahle shootings Sunday night were “martyrs of all of Lebanon.”

 

Soueid said there were attempts to incite intra-Christian strife. “There is an attempt to say that the Christians are the weaker group today in the internal Lebanese structure,” he added, “as they think that Sunni-Shia fighting possibly exceeds the borders of Lebanon, but Christian-Christian fighting remains confined to family tragedies.”

 

“We will not miss one opportunity to prevent such fighting, and the Christian March 14 forces will not move in this direction.”