Geagea calls for implementing ceasefire agreement without maneuvers
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Wednesday stressed “the importance of building the future on firm and solid foundations based on security and stability.”
He voiced his remarks during a meeting in Maarab with French Ambassador to Lebanon Hervé Magro.
Security and stability “can only be guaranteed through the state’s regaining of its authority, decision and sovereignty across Lebanese soil, with all of what the means of exclusivity in possessing arms, the war and peace decisions, and controlling the border and its crossings in a permanent manner,” Geagea added.
“The priority is for implementing the ceasefire agreement that was approved by the previous government without maneuvering. When the state fully shoulders its responsibilities and shows its seriousness in enforcing all U.N. resolutions, especially 1559, 1701 and 1689, all world countries will stand by us to ensure Israel’s withdrawal from all the remaining points,” the LF leader went on to say.
“Without this we will remain in the same dilemma and we will hear further futile ‘resistance and defiance’ theories that led to Lebanon’s ruin and destruction. We will also lose the world’s confidence in Lebanon’s ability to rise, despite the momentum created by the president’s inaugural speech and the government’s statement, and despite all the efforts that the government will exert in the domestic files, reforms and reconstruction,” Geagea said.
Source: Naharnet
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