Miqati: Lebanon Can Never Take Sides in Internal Disputes of a Neighboring State
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Prime Minister Najib Miqati stated on Tuesday that the developments in the region “are very complicated and exceptional,” noting that no one can predict their outcomes.
He said during a Ramadan gathering: “Lebanon cannot for one second support the violence and bloodshed. It’s only position should be against the Israeli enemy.”
“We can never take sides in any internal dispute in a neighboring country because it will become embroiled in a greater problem whose developments are taking place outside its borders,” he added before a delegation of officials from northern Lebanon.
“Why should we drag ourselves in disputes that will have repercussions on our unity and stability,” Miqati said.
“We are responsible for protecting Lebanon and we should take the opportunity to bolster stability and our economy” instead of getting involved in political disputes that have cost Lebanon so much in the past, the premier stressed.
10 August 2011, 12:28
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"Why should we drage ourselves into .. disputes..." because, ya dawlet elra'ees...people are DYING, they are being arrested indiscriminately, cities are being destroyed. Stand up for freedom, stand up to the causes that your people want you to stand up for. Shame on you, you have lost all credibility in the sunni muslim street, you will never be re-elected into parliament again...let along be prime minister. mabrook 3layk hizbolla's support
10 August 2011, 15:19
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Yes ! Prime Minister. so why are we taking sides? by abstaining on UNSC vote that was drafted on a mild tone ...or by sending Foreign affairs minister expressing support.
Condemning use of violence on both sides and accelerating reforms & democratization would have been a good exemple of ''not taking sides''.
10 August 2011, 15:28
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"Why should we drag ourselves into other people's disputes?" Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait have spoken as has Turkey. Which of those States has a government that was installed as a Syrian project? None of them.
How can Mikati refer to Syria as if it were some stranger when it is his patron, the reason for his prime ministership? He denies reality. He and the coup government that he "leads" in Lebanon is the fruit and the product of this murderous regime. Mikati, more than Saudi Arabia, Kuwait Bahrain and the others needs to speak in order to justify himself. If what Assad is doing in Syria is an illigitimate exercise of power, and it clearly is, then the Mikati project in Lebanon is equally illigitimate and Mikati needs to make a case for himself and his "government", if indeed one can be made. Maybe this is the true reason that he choses to remain silent. He cannot justify himself any longer.
10 August 2011, 15:51
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We care because we have been (and still are) under the same oppression of the Assad regime that the Syrians are experiencing. FYI Mr. PM, most Lebanese people hate the Assad regime more than Israel...
