Berri Says March 14 Campaign Against Hizbullah’s Arms Has No Prospect
Speaker Nabih Berri stressed that the cabinet formation process is not facing problems that cannot be solved and denied that the March 8 forces were rejecting to give President Michel Suleiman shares in the government.
“No one, including (FPM leader) Michel Aoun is rejecting to give President Suleiman a share,” Berri told As Safir daily in remarks published Monday. “However, there are (different) point of views on the type” of shares.
The cabinet “definitely” won’t see light before March 14, Berri said in other remarks published in al-Joumhouriah newspaper that hit the newsstands last week.
He stressed that a technocrat cabinet is not useful. “It should be a technocrat-mixed politicians government.”
The AMAL movement leader told both dailies that the March 14 campaign against Hizbullah’s arms has no “political or national prospect.”
“A non-sectarian state would sanctify the resistance. But in Lebanon, the ugly sectarianism is controlling the stances and interests of some” parties, Berri said in reference to the March 14 forces.
Asked about the fate of national dialogue sessions amid the ongoing campaign against Hizbullah’s arms, Berri said: “There is no new dialogue in the future.”
“The defense strategy is summarized in the ‘army-people-resistance’ equation which was endorsed by the policy statement of Caretaker Premier Saad Hariri,” the speaker stressed.
On protests against Lebanon’s sectarian system, Berri described the demands of youth to topple confessionalism as a “lifesaving boat that could save us all and save the country.”
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