March 14 to Hand Memo with over 50 Signatures to Suleiman Next Week

The number of signatures on a memo that the March 14 alliance seeks to hand President Michel Suleiman on Hizbullah's role in Syria has reached more than 50, An Nahar daily reported on Sunday.

Pan-Arab daily al-Hayat quoted March 14 officials as saying that a delegation will visit Suleiman on Tuesday.

A copy of the document will also be handed over to the United Nations and the Arab League, the reports said.

The memo says the majority of the Lebanese disapprove Hizbullah's involvement in Syria's war and criticizes caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour, saying he neither represents Lebanon nor the foreign ministry. It accuses him of being a Hizbullah complicit.

Its signatories call for deploying the Lebanese army on the northern and northeastern border to prevent the smuggling of arms and the infiltration of gunmen.

The memo also lauds Suleiman's stance from the Syrian crisis and reiterates the commitment to the Baabda Declaration and the policy of dissociation.

Hizbullah has been instrumental in the fighting alongside regime troops in Syria. It played a major role in taking over the central town of Qusayr that lies 10 kilometers from Lebanon's northeastern border.

The party's fighters are also actively backing government troops in the fighting in Homs and Aleppo, activists said.