NLP calls for the implementation of international resolutions
The National Liberal Party expressed its congratulations to the families of the Arab and Lebanese prisoners who were freed from detention in Israel this week.
In a statement following its weekly meeting, the NLP, whose president is Dory Chamoun, also called on the government to give priority to the matter of the Lebanese detainees in Syrian prisons and the Lebanese “forced refugees” in Israel.
The party recommended commissioning two ministers of state to follow up on these humanitarian matters.
The statement suggested that the Lebanese seek international assistance after the success achieved by the UN-appointed German mediator in the prisoner swap deal between Hezbollah and Israel.
The NLP’s statement went on to say that the party is at ease with the imminent establishment of diplomatic ties between Lebanon and Syria, whose presidents agreed on the matter during last week’s Mediterranean Union summit in Paris.
“Deeds are more important that words,” the statement read. “What is more important is divorcing from a past marked by Syria’s rejection of dealing with Lebanon as a sovereign, free and independent state.”
The party wished the newly-formed government luck and called for the implementation of international resolutions in order to rebuild a unified state, solve the issue of the Shebaa Farms, address the country’s social and economic problems, prepare for the legislative elections, and keep weapons under the control of the state.