Mustaqbal: Berri’s Remarks ‘Smoke Bombs’ to Deviate Attention from Failure to Form Govt
The Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc noted Tuesday that the March 8 camp has so far failed to form a new cabinet “because most of its leaders have favored their narrow personal and factional interests over the interests of the country and the citizens.”
In a statement issued following its weekly meeting, the bloc accused the March 8 camp of “attempting unsuccessfully to deviate attention from the core problem – failure to form a government.”
It also slammed Speaker Nabih Berri’s recent remarks in which he charged that “the Cedar Revolution has set Lebanon back 60 years legally and demographically.”
The bloc described Berri’s remarks as an attack on “the Cedar Revolution and what it had represented and still represents to the Lebanese people in terms of sacrifices, martyrs and national values pertaining to the fortification of Lebanon’s sovereignty and the freedom of its people,” stressing that the Cedar Revolution “has achieved major national accomplishments.”
Addressing calls by Palestinian and Lebanese factions for a June 5 rally on Lebanon’s southern border with Israel, the bloc said it respects freedom of expression, but called on the Lebanese authorities to honor “the country’s commitments to U.N. Security Council 1701,” which ended the 2006 devastating war between Hizbullah and the Jewish state.
The bloc also warned against exploiting the rallies to “turn the South into an arena for regional conflicts.
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