Hizbullah, PSP officials meet for talks
Officials from Hizbullah and the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) held talks on Tuesday focusing on means to preserve contact and collaboration among them.
The meeting was held at a Hizbullah”s office in Beirut”s southern suburbs and was headed by MP Akram Shehayeb on behalf of the PSP and politburo member Wafiq Safa, representing Hizbullah.
"The meeting”s agenda included the procedures to reinforce civic peace, to strengthen reconciliation and to preserve the calm atmosphere," according to a statement issued by the state-run National News Agency.
Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and PSP head Walid Jumblatt held talks in mid-June following an almost four-year feud.
Pro-opposition Al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Tuesday that Jumblatt said speeches made by Phalange Party MP Sami Gemayel "take Lebanon back to 1975," the year of the outbreak of Lebanon”s Civil War.
"Gemayel is young yet such rhetoric is harmful," the daily quoted Jumblatt as saying.
On Monday Gemayel said the March 14 Forces refused to grant the opposition veto power in the next Cabinet and refused any mention of Hizbullah”s arms or the Resistance in the cabinet”s policy statement.
According to Al-Akhbar, Jumblatt said the Taif Accord made it clear that there was "a truce among all Lebanese who all agreed on being in a permanent state of war with Israel." The PSP leader also stressed that Palestinians inside Lebanon would return to their homeland.
Tackling the issue of privatization, Jumblatt said "it was a global economic trend at a certain point, and the Lebanese were excited about it."
"However, now things have changed, and the economic crisis proves the change," he said.
"We have witnessed how savage capitalism is, and how the US was finally turning into a semi-socialist state," he added.