March 14 Slams Nasrallah’s ‘Ambiguous’ Retort

March 14 general-secretariat coordinator Fares Soaid has said that Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah didn’t clarify in his speech on Thursday whether his party would heed the demand of the March 14 opposition to integrate its arms in the state.

“We waited for an answer from him on the March 14’s proposal for Hizbullah to abide by the conditions of the state, i.e. the cooperation with the international tribunal to hand over the suspects and the handing over of the arms so that they could be placed under the state’s care,” Soaid said in remarks published Friday.

“His answer was ambiguous,” he said, adding “we didn’t understand if he supports or rejects the return to the state under its own conditions or if he wants for the political division on his arms to continue.”

In a televised speech on the occasion of a rally to commemorate slain resistance leaders in Beirut’s southern suburbs, Nasrallah called for a national dialogue without prior conditions.

He also said Hizbullah’s arms are aimed at defending Lebanon and liberating occupied territories. “We will keep our arms to defend Lebanon.”

But he didn’t bring up the issue of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon that has indicted four Hizbullah members in ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s Feb. 2005 assassination.

Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri called during a ceremony held on the occasion of his father’s murder anniversary on Tuesday for Hizbullah to surrender its arms and hand over the four men.

Soaid also accused Nasrallah of “insulting the people,” saying such a behavior does not suit him and his rank.