Berri Responding to WikiLeaks: Statements Attributed to Me are Very Accurate
Speaker Nabih Berri did not deny the recent WikiLeaks reports that have been published exclusively in Al-Akhbar newspaper.
An MP had asked the speaker of his opinion on the cables, to which he responded: “All I know is that what was attributed to me are very accurate.”
Al-Akhbar reported on Friday that the MP wanted Berri’s position on caretaker Health Minister Mohammed Jawad Khalifeh’s statements that were reported in the leaked cable.
Berri had stated in one cable that the liberation of the Israeli-occupied Shabaa Farms would eliminate Hizbullah’s excuse for maintaining its possession of arms.
Another cable reported Khalifeh as saying that the speaker was upset with Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s victory speech at the end of the July 2006 war.
The speaker also deceived two Hizbullah ministers when he agreed to the August 16 government decision to deploy the Lebanese army in southern Lebanon, which according to Khalifeh violated some "red lines" that Nasrallah and Berri had agreed upon, said the cable.
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