Suleiman: We Will Find Flexible Solution to Resistance Equation in Policy Statement
President Michel Suleiman reiterated on Thursday that the Baabda Declaration holds greater political significance than the new government's policy statement.
He told reporters in Paris: “A flexible phrasing of the statement will be drafted in order to resolve the dispute over the resistance.”
“I predicted that Hizbullah would criticize me for my position on the resistance,” he remarked.
They should not undermine words that write agreements because these words write history, stressed Suleiman.
Commenting on the upcoming presidential elections, he said: “Thwarting the needed quorum to hold the elections is an obstruction of the constitution.”
“Such an obstruction only takes place during exceptional circumstances,” noted Suleiman.
“The elections will be held on time out of my desire to hold them and because of the international community's support” to Lebanon, he stated from Paris where he was taking part in the International Support Group meeting on Lebanon that was held on Wednesday.
The panel drafting the policy statement has so far failed in its mission due to an ongoing dispute over the role of the resistance in Lebanon and the equation of the “army-people-resistance.”
Suleiman had stated over the weekend that the panel should steer away from “wooden equations” to which Hizbullah responded that the president “does not distinguish between gold and wood.”
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