Efforts to Bring Together Jumblat, Raad Resume

Efforts to Bring Together Jumblat, Raad Resume

Efforts to set up a meeting between Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) leader Walid Jumblat and Head of Hizbullah”s parliamentary bloc Mohammed Raad have resumed, As Safir newspaper reported Monday.

It said progress was made to bring the two sides together after Lebanese Democratic Party (LDP) chief Minister Talal Arslan resumed his mediation between the PSP and Hizbullah.

As Safir quoted Jumblat as saying that during his meeting with Arslan at the latter”s residence in Khaldeh last Monday, the LDP leader "suggested to resume contacts" to arrange a meeting between the PSP chief and MP Raad.

"I informed him (Arslan) that I am ready (for such talks)," Jumblat told the daily.

Sources close to the contacts between both sides told As Safir that Jumblat wants the meeting with Raad to pave the way for future talks with Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.