Phalange, Tashnag “Turn the Page on the Past”
Former President Amin Gemayel said the Phalange and the Tashnag party have "turned the page on the past" and vowed the two sides would cooperate to consolidate democracy in Lebanon.
"We and the Tashnag party work for Lebanon”s interest. We have a lot of things in common that we could work on to build a Lebanese state and consolidate the role of institutions and democracy," Gemayel said after meeting a delegation from the Tashnag headed by its Secretary-General Hovig Mekhitarian and MP Hagop Pakradounian.
Gemayel described the meeting as "positive" and stressed that his party "turned the black page on the past."
Minister Elie Marouni, MPs Sami and Nadim Gemayel, Phalange Second Vice-President Salim al-Sayegh and politburo member Albert Gostanian also attended the talks.
"We visited (former) President Amin Gemayel to stress on the historic ties between the two sides and stress that what happened during the elections was a passing cloud," Mekhitarian said after the meeting.
He said both parties would cooperate on adopting a joint statement.