Bassil: National Unity Much More Important than Arab Solidarity
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil revealed on Thursday that Lebanon's delegation succeeded during the recent United Nations Human Rights Council meeting in dropping an article in its statement that links Hizbullah to terrorism.
He added during a press conference: “Lebanon's national unity is much more important than Arab solidarity.”
“We may not have supported a position at the recent Arab League summit that targets a Lebanese faction, but that does not mean that we advocate that faction's stances,” he explained.
Addressing the Arab summit's decision to form a joint Arab force, Bassil remarked that such an idea had been proposed at the Arab League before the crisis in Yemen erupted.
“Lebanon has always backed such a force,” he told reporters.
“We stressed during the Arab foreign ministers meeting that Lebanon will support any position that enjoys consensus,” the minister declared.
“We had coordinated our stance with Prime Minister Tammam Salam, which backs the legitimacy of any Arab country and calls for Lebanon to remain neutral from crises,” Bassil added.
“We cannot tailor Lebanon's foreign policy to cater to the interests of certain sides,” he remarked.
The Arab League summit over the weekend agreed to continue on supporting the Saudi-led military operation against Yemen until the Huthi rebels are defeated and legitimacy is restored in the country.
Saudi Arabia had last week launched airstrikes against Yemen's rebel movement.
Salam's position at the Arab summit had created a debate among political powers, with Hizbullah claiming that his stances do not reflect the views of all Lebanese.
The premier had said at the summit that Lebanon supported any decision to preserve the territorial integrity of Yemen, reiterating the country's commitment to the dissociation policy and calling for distancing Lebanon from the region's conflicts.
The cabinet on Wednesday discussed his stand and later renewed its trust in the prime minister.
Addressing the case of Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Bassil said: “Ultimately, we have this crisis to deal with and we should focus our energy on resolving it. We do not have high hopes from foreign powers, but it is our duty to pursue opportunities.”
“Reducing the number of Syrian refugees is more effective than foreign aid,” he stated.
This can be achieved through removing the refugee status off those who do not deserve it, Bassil explained.
Lebanon is hosting around 1.5 million refugees who have fled the fighting in their war-torn country.
Salam asked donors on Tuesday for humanitarian assistance to help the Lebanese authorities implement a plan to overcome the Syrian refugee crisis.
“The crisis should be managed through a more than $1 billion plan set up by the Lebanese government,” he said at an international conference for donors held in Kuwait.
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02 April 2015, 12:50
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Ladies and Gentleman here you have it, the future president of the islamic republic of Lebanon
02 April 2015, 14:02
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قاسم: نحن تحت إمرة الولي الفقيه
اعتبر نائب الأمين العام لـ”حزب الله” نعيم قاسم أن “ولاية الفقيه هي نظرة إسلامية في السياسة والحكم وإدارة شؤون الناس، والولي الفقيه يرسم السياسات العامة للأمة في جوانبها المختلفة”. ولفت إلى ان “المقاومة الإسلامية انتصرت وحمت لبنان وأشعلت روح الجهاد في فلسطين تحت إمرة الولي الفقيه الذي التزم الإسلام وسماحته والدعوة الحسنة”.
وتابع قاسم خلال توقيع كتابه “الولي المجدد”: “التزم حزب الله قناعته بولاية الفقيه ولم يفرضها على أحد، كما لا يقبل أن يفرض عليه أحد قناعات وقواعد ما أنزل الله بها من سلطان، وتحت إمرة الولي الفقيه قدمنا تجربة عظيمة في لبنان، بينما رأينا تجارب أخرى لا تحتمل في لبنان”.
02 April 2015, 14:34
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Nassrallah says in his latest speech and other speeches that "everything we the shia do including social, economical, family, decision of peace and war is done under the direct orders of wally al faqih"
and here we have the Jammo of naharnet, the paid mouthpiece of the houthis trying to tell us the LF and Mustaqbal take orders.
02 April 2015, 14:47
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Nawaf Moussawi: "if we have to choose between National Unity and the Resistance, we choose the Resistance". April 2010
02 April 2015, 15:29
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To all our brothers and sisters in the FPM, and Vassil, and Aoun, Dear loosers, Lebanon first, not Iranian First, Srcond Arabic relations will come.
VASSIL: what are you goint to say to those who get affected by the words of wisdom you speak. Guyes ... Let us reflect among the wisdom os Vassil, free your soul and start contemplating now. LET US KNOW if any results come up.
what the hell he is trying to do? HAVE MERCY on people of yours working in the Gulf.
02 April 2015, 15:32
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To all our brothers and sisters in the FPM, and Vassil, and Aoun, Dear loosers, Lebanon first, not Iranian First, Second Arabic relations will come.
VASSIL: what are you going to say to those who get affected by the words of wisdom you speak. Guyes ... Let us reflect among the wisdom os Vassil, free your soul and start contemplating now. LET US KNOW if any results come up.
what the hell he is trying to do? HAVE MERCY on people of yours working in the Gulf.
02 April 2015, 17:19
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Indeed Bassil, I thought all these so called "Phoenicians" took pride in their roots. Yet they all scream and yell the same dusty words as the Saudi Wahabis does.
Very pathetic indeed.
02 April 2015, 17:57
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you and mowaten and similar keep accusing others of being sectarians etc, Yet, I noticed that you people always attack the "wahabis" and call them the ugliest names. If you are not aware, let me tell you "wahabism" is a religious form of the moslem faith much as we have Catholicism in Christianity or Jyou have Jaafrism in Islam. You are not attacking a political stance, you are attacking a religious form. I suggest you stop accusing others of being sectarian and apply the same to yourselves.
02 April 2015, 18:12
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Wahabbism is a British created political sect -
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alastair-crooke/isis-wahhabism-saudi-arabia_b_5717157.html
http://www.iqou-moa.org/sheikhgilani/desk/670-isis-british-brainchild
Read your history.
02 April 2015, 18:15
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قال حيدر مصلحي، وزير الاستخبارات الإيراني السابق في حكومة محمود أحمدي نجاد، إن "إيران تسيطر فعلاً على أربع عواصم عربية كمال قال رئيس الوزراء الإسرائيلي بنيامين نتنياهو".
ونقلت وكالة أنباء "فارس" عن مصلحي تناغم تصريحاته مع تصريحات رئيس الوزراء الإسرائيلي، بقوله إن "تصريحات نتنياهو تبين مدى تنامي قوة إيران في المنطقة".
وبحسب مصلحي، فإن "الثورة الإيرانية لا تعرف الحدود وهي لكل الشيعة"، مؤكداً أن "جماعة الحوثيين في اليمن هي إحدى نتاجات الثورة الإيرانية".
وليست هذه المرة الأولى التي تصدر فيها تصريحات عن قادة في إيران سياسيين وعسكريين، حول توسعهم ونفوذهم في المنطقة العربية بواسطة الجماعات والميليشيات الطائفية التابعة لطهران في بعض الدول.
02 April 2015, 18:42
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marcus, It amuses me to see that you use the same words in your reports, as Benjamin Netanyahu did at the U.S Congress.
Yet you deny any alliance between the Wahabi Monarchy and the Zionist Regime.
02 April 2015, 17:35
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exactly, their solidarity is always about killing arabs, in syria, palestine or yemen. those wahhabis make it very hard for me to remain proud to be arab.
02 April 2015, 17:43
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gotta give him that, "mowaten" is always true to himself and his sectarian stench.
03 April 2015, 05:54
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mowaten; despite these serious setbacks, I urge you to keep your "Arab" identity no matter what. This identity that comes shining through in every single post of yours. I know it is difficult sometimes as there are many Iranian evil temptations but never doubt your national identity, your convictions, and your loyalties. When is Ashoura this year, mowaten? I hope you don't mind if I refer to you as MF ( short for My Friend).
