Phalange Party: Disarming Palestinian Bases is Priority
The Phalange Party on Monday said the Conference on National Dialogue should focus on disarming Palestinian bases outside refugee camps.
The party, in a statement released after a meeting by its politburo, called for speeding up efforts to disarm Palestinian bases in light of information that they were the source of rockets fired from south Lebanon recently.
The statement said the fourth session of national dialogue was convened "amidst attempts to place preconditions prior to tackling the topic of defense strategy."
"They don”t want a defense strategy that restricts defending the nation to the state," the statement added.
It called for "settling the Palestinian presence in Lebanon through a political-diplomatic campaign with Arab and foreign nations."