Hizbullah Wants to Avoid Dialogue, Assad”s Stand on Lebanon Hasn”t Changed
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Friday accused Hizbullah of seeking to avoid going into national dialogue.
Geagea criticized as "not accepted" remarks by Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah that the party would maintain its weapons even if Shebaa Farms were liberated from Israeli occupation.
He urged President Michel Suleiman to call for holding the proposed national dialogue as soon as possible.
The fate of weapons, according to Geagea, is to be "decided by the Lebanese people and not by a certain faction that controls the decision to go to war or peace and outlines a strategy in line with its interests."
He said the March 14 majority practiced "maximum self restraint" after the attack by Hizbullah operatives on a Lebanese Army helicopter and the killing of its pilot Capt. Samer Hanna.
Geagea rejected a proposal by Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri to form a joint Army-Hizbullah coordination committee.
The Lebanese Forces leader also rejected comments on Lebanon by Syrian President Bashar Assad saying they "indicate that his stand on Lebanon has not changed."
The March 14 alliance is confident that France”s stand on Lebanon "would not change," Geagea concluded.