Report: Policy Statement May Be Announced Monday after Overcoming Resistance Obstacle
The policy statement of the new government may be announced on Monday after overcoming reservations linked to the role of the resistance, reported the daily An Nahar on Sunday.
Political sources revealed to the daily that the statement may assert the “Lebanese people's right to resist Israel”, but through the state as their main authority.
The daily added that a political decision had been taken “by the highest authorities” in order to eliminate all obstacles that may stand in the way of the new government in order to dedicate attention towards confronting security dangers.
Speaker Nabih Berri, who had returned from his trip abroad, had tasked his envoy, Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil, to propose a few solutions to the obstacle of the “army-people-resistance” formula that Hizbullah advocates.
This formula and the March 14 camp's commitment to the Baabda Declaration were seen as two main obstacles in the approval of a new ministerial statement.
A ministerial committee tasked with devising the statement has so far met three times to come up with a statement.
Various ministers have said that the majority of obstacles have been overcome, but the controversial “army-people-resistance equation” remained a point of contention.
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