PSP, Hizbullah Agree to Activate Govt. Work, Meet Periodically
A meeting was held Monday night between officials from the Progressive Socialist Party and Hizbullah at the residence of Public Works and Transport Minister Ghazi Aridi, during which the conferees agreed to “activate the government's work,” Hizbullah's al-Manar television reported.
The talks relaunched the "coordination meetings" between the two parties and "the conferees will meet again regardless of the circumstances," said al-Manar.
The four-hour meeting was attended on Hizbullah's side by State Minister Mohammed Fneish, Agriculture Minister Hussein Hajj Hasan, MP Hasan Fadlallah and security apparatus chief Wafiq Safa, according to the TV network.
Aridi, Displaced Persons Minister Alaeddine Terro and MP Akram Shehayyeb represented the PSP.
The meeting tackled the "bilateral ties" between the two parties and stressed the importance of "self-dissociation" towards the Syrian crisis, al-Manar reported.
The two sides also agreed on the need to “tone down the political rhetoric and deal rationally” with the developments.
“We agreed on certain things and disagreed on other things, but we stressed the need to refrain from interfering in the Syrian crisis,” Aridi told al-Manar.
“We discussed the threats of sectarian strife and stressed the need to prevent it,” he added.
According to the minister, the two parties also discussed “the issue of the government, the economy, the living conditions, combating corruption and theft and activating the administration.”
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