Geagea to Attend Bkirki Meeting After Controversy of Passing Cloud
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea will attend a meeting of Maronite political leaders scheduled to be held in Bkirki later this month after the storm sparked by the controversial statements of Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi subsided, high-ranking LF sources said.
“There will be no problem in our participation at the Bkirki meeting on Sept. 23 after the ‘summer cloud’ that al-Rahi’s remarks created have passed,” the sources told An Nahar newspaper published Friday.
“The patriarch returned to Bkirki’s principles” after stressing that his statements on Hizbullah’s arms and the situation in Syria were taken out of context, they said.
Earlier in the week, Geagea called the controversy “a passing cloud of ambiguity.”
The Phalange party has also denied that it was mulling to boycott the Bkirki meeting that will bring together in addition to Geagea, Phalange party chief Amin Gemayel, Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun and Marada movement chief Suleiman Franjieh.
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