Salam: Foiling strife can't occur at expense of enforcing law
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has said that “foiling strife cannot occur at the expense of enforcing the law,” in reference to the latest controversy over Hezbollah’s illumination of the iconic Raouche Rock with images of its slain leaders Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine.
“The opposite is true, seeing as foiling strife requires that all citizens feel that they are equal before the law and that the state protects them,” Salam added.
“Our project has been and is still state building. And the same as there can be no one state without one army, there can be no one state without one law that applies to everyone equally, with no one above it and immune to accountability,” the premier said.
As for the campaigns that have targeted him in recent weeks, Salam said: “My conscience is clear and these malicious campaigns cannot change anything in my course. No one can question my Arab identity and firm stances toward the Palestinian cause, which I have defended from the highest international forums, without making Lebanon pay any price for that.”
Source: Naharnet
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