Pro-Hezbollah paper says Doha statement returns crisis to square one
A statement issued by the U.S., France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Egypt after a meeting in Doha has returned Lebanon’s presidential crisis to “square one,” the pro-Hezbollah al-Akhbar newspaper said on Wednesday.
“The presidential vacuum will now protract indefinitely,” the daily said in a headline.
“Ten months after New York’s tripartite statement, the Doha statement came on Monday to return the crisis in Lebanon to square one, putting it anew before new months of the crisis and returning Paris to Arab and Western constants,” al-Akhbar added.
In a statement issued after the Doha meeting, the five-nation group on Lebanon had threatened “measures” against the Lebanese parties who are “blocking progress” in the stalled presidential election file, calling for a new president who “embodies integrity, unites the nation, puts the interests of the country first, prioritizes the well-being of its citizens, and forms a broad and inclusive coalition to implement essential economic reforms.”
Source: Naharnet
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