March 14 Rejects Increasing Participants in Roundtable Dialogue
On the eve of the second session of the national dialogue in Baabda, Lebanese Forces bloc MP Antoine Zahra told NOW Lebanon on Tuesday that the meeting of March 14 alliance leaders on Monday night in Qoreitem aimed to coordinate the issues surrounding the dialogue and affirmed that the alliance totally rejected the increase of the numbers of interlocutors.
He added that the alliance called for more coordination after the March 8 coalition won the elections of Lawyers Syndicate of North Lebanon and considered it an early alarm before the parliamentary elections in 2009.
Zahra also affirmed that the alliance will run for the elections with united lists of candidates and that it had begun preparations to do so.
In a response to a question, he said that Christian reconciliation had not collapsed but had been postponed and added that it was among northern residents more than among Christians.
He expressed the Lebanese Forces readiness to progress with reconciliation at any time and said that he was waiting for the mediator, referring to the Maronite League, or the other party, referring to the Marada Movement, to work on its accomplishment.
He added that the current circumstances did not help in forging the reconciliation or else it would be accomplished and the Lebanese Forces did not accuse anyone of attempting at obstructing it because they were committed to the “media truce.”