Jumblat: The Syrian Regime Fall Will Not Result in Hizbullah Handing Over Their Weapons
Progressive Socialist Party MP Walid Jumblat said Thursday that the fall of the Syrian regime will not result in Hizbollah handing over their weapons, and insisted on the adoption of a “political solution” in Syria rejecting a military intervention.
“It is crazy to bet that the fall of the Syrian regime will result in Hizbullah handing over its weapons,” he said during a talk show on LBC.
Jumblat added: “Assad has cut ties with everyone and made Syria suffer today.”
He stressed on the need to cease fire in Syria and to adopt a political solution.
“The political solution is the best.” Jumblatt said.
He pleaded with the Syrian President Bashar Assad to “declare a cease of violence, release the detainees, abolish article 8 of the constitution and to have elections.”
“You cannot convince the Syrian citizen in Huran or any other region that there are reforms while blood is being spilled,” Jumblat said, adding that “even when the observer group went to Syria, a cease-fire did not happen.”
The PSP leader rejected a military intervention which would cause “chaos in Lebanon and Syria.”
When asked about the Lebanese issues, Jumblatt said that “we must be firm in stating that Israel is the enemy and we should have dialog with the resistance for gradual absorption.”
He called for switching from the “people, army, and resistance” slogan to the “ State of resistance, as Hizbullah Chief Hassan Nasrallah suggested in 2006 on the dialog table.”
When asked about the administrative appointments, Jumblat asked to talk with FPM leader MP Michel Aoun “in order to solve things quietly in the government.”
He added: “Let us put Alice Chebtini as the head of the Supreme Judicial Council because she has seniority.”
When asked about his alliance with March 14 Jumblatt stated that “I am allied with President Suleiman, PM Najib Miqati, Free Patriotic Movement, Hizbullah, and Minister Suleiman Franjieh, since this team is Lebanon’s salvation at the moment.”
“I will not go back to March 14, and it is not true that the closer the Syrian regime comes to collapsing, the closer I come to March 14,” he added.
The PSP leader slammed Aoun for insulting the martyrs in his previous statements stating that “they were the ones who brought him back from his exile.”
Source: Naharnet
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