I Don”t Care about Presidency… Hizbullah Not a Terrorist Group
Free Patriotic Movement leader Gen. Michel Aoun said he does not want to become president, but rather he is seeking to make reforms.
"My main concern now is to make a reform plan in Lebanon because since 1920 to date we have been living under a regime that has not changed," Aoun told Euronews television.
He said Hizbullah is not a terrorist group.
"Hizbullah did not carry out any world-wide terrorist attack, not abroad and not inside the Lebanese border," Aoun explained. "Hizbullah carried out resistance activities against the occupying force in conformity with the U.N. charter."
"This is why we did not accept to call Hizbullah a terrorist organization," Aoun went on to say.
The former army general believed that abolishing sectarianism would facilitate change and reform.
"Whenever we criticize a government official he would accuse us of attacking his sect. Therefore, our prime aim is to have a civil government where sectarianism is replaced by citizen rights," he added.
On chances that Lebanon would cut a deal with Israel if a settlement was reached over Shebaa Farms, Aoun said: "The secret to peace with Israel is a solution to the issue of Palestinian refugees, not Shebaa Farms."