Sfeir: Problems Cannot be Solved through Street Protests

Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir said Monday that riots and street protests do not solve the country”s problems.

 

“Problems cannot be solved through street (protests), but rather inside constitutional institutions,” he said about Sunday”s riots that left seven people killed in Beirut”s southern suburbs.

 

Sfeir also stressed the need to speed up presidential elections to be followed by the formation of a national unity government.

 

His remarks came after a meeting with a delegation of lawyers representing the majority March 14 alliance.

The delegation quoted Sfeir as condemning the riots and asking the “Lord” not to let disorder spread in Lebanon.

 

Sfeir also was quoted as stressing on the need to restore unity among the Lebanese people.