Ghalioun: Nasrallah's Remarks Inappropriate Coming from a Resistance Leader
Syrian National Council leader Burhan Ghalioun said Friday that Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s recent remarks that the Syrian opposition had presented its credentials to the West were “inappropriate coming from the leader of a resistance movement and a spiritual figure.”
In an interview on Al-Arabiya television, Ghalioun added: “Neighboring Lebanon is a real brother of Syria and it is more than a neighbor.”
“When Syria transits from an oppressive regime to another that does not kill the Lebanese, it will have different relations with Lebanon, relations of cooperation and consultation, and we won’t interfere in the Lebanese affairs,” Ghalioun stressed.
In December, Nasrallah said: "The so-called Syrian National Council, formed in Istanbul, and its leader Burhan Ghalioun ... are trying to present their credentials to the United States and Israel."
His comments came after Ghalioun was quoted as saying a Syria run by the country's main opposition group, the SNC, would cut military ties to Iran, Hizbullah and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.
"Breaking the exceptional relationship means breaking the strategic, military alliance," he was quoted as saying. "After the fall of the Syrian regime, (Hizbullah) won't be the same."
But in the interview on Al-Arabiya on Friday, Ghalioun stressed that Hizbullah would change its policy “after the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.”
“That does not mean that I support severing ties with Hizbullah,” he added.
Addressing the Syrian situations, Ghalioun said: “Syria will be a sovereign, independent and immune country and it will not accept submission and it will not abandon the (occupied) Golan” Heights -- captured by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War.
“It will rather defend it with all means, including military ones,” he vowed.
Source: Naharnet
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