March 14 Condemns Attempts to Involve Lebanon in Syria’s Popular Opposition Movements
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
The March 14 General Secretariat condemned on Wednesday attempts by some media outlets to involve Lebanon in Syria’s popular opposition movements, which claimed that some independence movements in Lebanon are inciting unrest in the Arab state.
It called on in a statement after its weekly meeting these outlets to cease their “rumors” which it believed are an attempt to employ the developments in the Arab world on the internal Lebanese political scene, demanding that legal action be taken against them.
“The independence intifada in Lebanon cannot but support calls for change in the Arab world on the basis of freedom, justice, democracy, and peace for all,” it added.
“The popular intifada in the Arab world is an honest expression of justified rights after years of oppression and corruption,” it noted.
“The March 14 forces that advocated independence against foreign meddling in Lebanon rejects interfering in the affairs of other countries,” it continued.
Addressing local developments, the March 14 General Secretariat condemned last week’s kidnapping of seven Estonian cyclists in the Bekaa and the bomb planted before a Zahle church.
It said that such developments “would not have happened had it not been for the binds preventing the state from imposing its authority throughout Lebanon.”
“The arms are the main obstacle in hindering the state from restoring its authority and a constant cause for involving Lebanon in affairs that don’t concern it,” the statement remarked.
“The latest example of this was Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s announcement that his weapons are ready to fulfill any Iranian demand over developments in the region,” it continued.
Regarding the government formation process, the statement highlighted the U.N. Security Council’s demand that cabinet be formed soon, voicing a concern that Prime Minister-designate Najib Miqati “has so far failed in overcoming the conditions placed by those who appointed him to his position.”
