Hale Meets Geagea, LF Calls for Adopting Baabda Declaration as Policy Statement Basis
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U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon David Hale discussed on Saturday the latest developments with Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea as the party's parliamentary bloc stressed the importance of adopting the Baada Declaration and Bkirki Charter as basis of the cabinet's ministerial policy statement.
According to a statement issued by the LF press office the meeting was held for an hour in Maarab in presence of Elie Khour, Geagea's adviser.
Hale tackled with Geagea the situation along the Lebanese border and means to boost aid to Lebanon.
Earlier, the LF leader headed the weekly meeting for the party's parliamentary bloc called on Prime Minister Tammam Salam's cabinet to adopt the Baabda Declaration and the Bkirki charter exclusively at the government's ministerial statement.
Geagea had been adamant to stay out of the cabinet, saying he would not share power with Hizbullah.
The LF bloc stressed that this is the only way to change the current situation in the country.
The gatherers reiterated that Hizbullah should immediately withdraw its fighters from the neighboring country Syria and to deploy the Lebanese army to control the country's border and UNIFIL peacekeepers according to United Nations Security Council resolution 1701 “if it was necessary.”
The bloc noted that all illegal arms spreading across the country should be under the state's control.
Hizbullah has dispatched fighters to battle alongside the Syrian regime against rebels seeking the overthrow of President Assad.
The conflict, pitting a Sunni-dominated rebel movement against Assad, has raised sectarian tensions in Lebanon and Lebanese Sunni fighters have also been killed while fighting alongside Syrian rebels.
Lebanese parties are sharply divided over the crisis in Syria as the March 8 alliance continuously expresses its support to Assad, while the March 14 camp voices its support for the popular revolt.
22 February 2014, 14:45
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Because berry,joumblat,kawmeh souri,hezballah,hachem minkara... And all the others used to throw flowers during civil war... But u still clap ur hand when the do theire speaches, under the banner of the ISLAMIC resistance (so much more secular....)
Bravo southern a great post as always...
22 February 2014, 15:03
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Chupachups for you my friend... But not for southern, he's being a trouble maker.
22 February 2014, 20:46
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Southern: You are forgetting the Turks. You people are fixated on the Wahhabi and your Zionists but forget about the mother of all evil and terrorists, the Turks. Your failure to mention and include the Turks in your grievances and/or disapproval of Western policies will come back and stab you in the back because the Middle East allowed the Turks to triumph and not pay the price for committing the genocide. Talk about warmonger, how sad and funny the same time. You say the U.S. is a "warmonger" because they support the Zionists and Wahhabi. So other nations and/or causes do not count? If all of the sudden the U.S. stops supporting these two and start kissing the behind of Iran, they are no longer a warmonger? Here is the tip of the day: it is about national security/economic interest.
23 February 2014, 00:46
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My Southern friend: Everything eventually comes to a full circle. Case in point, the displaced Palestinians under the hands of the Zionists, and currently hundreds of thousands of Syrians. Also, lets talk about how many Lebanese were forced to leave their homeland after the eruption of the fabricated civil war. Evil comes in all shapes, forms and colors. To identify evil, we must look at the "common thread" or the "modus operandi". What did Hitler say? "Who remembers the Armenians". The rest is history, and the Armenians are doing very well. Why? Because the set their differences aside and stick together. Lebanon should take a lesson.
