President Hails Completion of Reconciliation in the Mountains

President Michel Suleiman hailed on Saturday the completion of the reconciliation process in the Mountains, in particular, in the mixed town of Brih in the Shouf.

Suleiman considered that the reconciliation fortifies the national unity and coexistence among the Lebanese as it will strengthen the ties between the residents of the Mountains and the rest of the people.

He praised the efforts exerted by Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat to accomplish this achievement.

On Friday, Jumblat revealed following talks with Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi that the reconciliation in the Mountains was complete and the end of violations against Christian properties in the village of Brih.

He pointed out that a a reconciliation ceremony will be held under the auspices of al-Rahi and the president after “the wound of the town of Brih healed.”

“With the end of violations against the land of the Christians in Brih, we put a closure to all the pain of the war in the Mountains,” Jumblat said.

During his visit to the Shouf in September, al-Rahi and Jumblat agreed to exert efforts to complete the reconciliation in the Mountains that the former head of the church, Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir, started in 2001.

At the time al-Rahi lauded the efforts exerted by the PSP chief for the return of the displaced to the Mountains, while Jumblat said the reconciliation would be complete only when the wound of the mixed Christian and Druze village heals.