Jumblat: Feltman Visited Beirut to Coordinate Efforts to Issue U.N. Resolution on Syria

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat has unveiled that U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman sought during his visit to Beirut last week to coordinate with Lebanese officials attempts to issue a U.N. Security Council resolution against Syria.

Jumblat told Hizbullah’s al-Manar TV on Monday night that he disagreed with Feltman on his view and stressed to him that “any decision to isolate Syria would not do any good.”

“Neither international resolutions nor sanctions are useful,” Jumblat told Feltman.

On the occasion of Liberation Day on Wednesday, the Druze chief stressed on the importance of the resistance amid the incapability of the international community to resolve the issue of the occupied border village of Ghajar.

Asked about U.S. President Barack Obama’s latest remark on Hizbullah, Jumblat told al-Manar that the stance is already “consumed.”

On Sunday, Obama accused Hizbullah of exercising “political assassination.”

On the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, Jumblat said: “The court will be used for political ends in the confrontation against the resistance and the regime in Syria.”

But he stressed that “we have reached an immune stage, whether the indictment was issued or not. This won’t change a thing.”

In his editorial to PSP’s al-Anbaa weekly, Jumblat urged Syrian President Bashar Assad to take “immediate measures that could introduce radical change” to confront the challenges facing Syria.

“These changes will help fulfill the people’s legitimate demands and prevent Syria from falling victim to division.”