Jumblat: No One Can Replace Hariri, 1559 Can't be Implemented
Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat has noted that “very special circumstances” have pushed ex-PM Saad Hariri to announce the suspension of his political activity, noting that the U.N. Security Council Resolution 1559 “cannot be implemented.”
Reminiscing the era that followed ex-PM Rafik Hariri’s assassination, Jumblat told MTV: “We continued back then with Saad Hariri and March 14 and then we scattered.”
“Today the situation has become worse, because the Arab and international situation is worse, but we will continue the confrontation with the allied forces in the least level of peaceful protest,” the PSP leader added, in a live interview.
“Hariri has very special circumstances that I will not talk about,” he said.
Warning that Hariri’s absence will “leave a vacuum in the Arab Sunni arena that no one can fill,” Jumblat said “we will see fragmentation in Beirut, Tripoli and Sidon.”
Hariri “had prevented any descent into polarization or civil war,” the PSP leader added.
Asked about the Kuwaiti paper presented to Lebanon, which contained Gulf, Arab and international demands, Jumblat noted that “it includes Resolution 1559 which cannot be implemented and will not be implemented.”
He also lamented “the Arab abandonment of Lebanon due to Hizbullah’s attack on the Arabs.”
Source: Naharnet
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