Geagea, al-Rahi hold talks after conflicting stances on dialogue
Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea on Tuesday called Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi and discussed with him the latest developments in Lebanon, especially the presidential election file, Geagea’s press office said.
The phone talks come a day after al-Rahi met in Diman with Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Walid Bukhari.
They also come two days after al-Rahi and Geagea voiced apparently conflicting stances on the proposed dialogue that Speaker Nabih Berri has called for.
“They invite you to dialogue to strangle you and kill you or to stifle your principles, beliefs and freedom and force you to do what they want,” Geagea said in an annual speech commemorating the “martyrs of the Lebanese Resistance”, noting that “years of vacuum” are better than the election of a Hezbollah-backed president.
Al-Rahi for his part called for a dialogue "without prejudgments."
"The dialogue that the MPs of the nation are invited to -- if it happens in spite of the bickering and the acceptance and rejection -- requires going to it without prejudgments nor the will to impose their ideas, projects and viewpoint without any consideration for others," al-Rahi said in his Sunday Mass sermon.
Source: Naharnet
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