Soueid: Trust is About “Actions Not Intentions”

Former MP Faris Soueid stressed on Tuesday that the latest statement of the March 14 alliance gave priority to the unconditional election of a new Lebanese head of state.

 

The statement "gave the priority to the unconditional election of a president and replacing the proposed dialogue table with bilateral meetings between MP Saad Hariri and Speaker Nabih Berri," Soueid said.

 

"The March 14 forces commissioned MP Hariri (to hold talks with Berri) provided that the election of the president would not be chained by preconditions," Voice of Lebanon radio station quoted Soueid, the coordinator of the secretariat general of the March 14 alliance, as saying.

 

Soueid stressed "trust is about acts not intentions" and if "electing a head of state needs dialogue with Speaker Berri we are ready."

 

However, "it is early to rule what these talks would lead to," Soueid said.