Murr, SSNP Laud Berri's Initiative amid Call for 'Real' Debate on Baabda Declaration
Speaker Nabih Berri's call for dialogue was welcomed Thursday by the Syrian Social National Party and MP Michel al-Murr, as the SSNP noted that “the issue of implementing the Baabda Declaration needs a real debate and a real interpretation.”
“Dialogue is a permanent national need, especially in a country witnessing dilemmas and crises,” SSNP's leadership said in a statement, after Berri's envoys met party chief MP Asaad Hardan.
Asked by a reporter about the Baabda Declaration, Hardan said: “Speaker Berri's initiative covers everything, and maybe the issue of implementing the Baabda Declaration needs a real debate and a real interpretation.”.
He pointed out that the Declaration stipulated that Lebanon must not be turned into “a corridor or base for (Syrian) gunmen and weapons.”
“Has this been achieved? Is this the scene that we're witnessing today or the scene that we have we've been witnessing since more than two years?” Hardan asked rhetorically.
For his part, Murr said: “We support the initiative launched by Speaker Berri and the (Development and Liberation) parliamentary committee told me that the outcome of consultations will be conveyed by Speaker Berri to President Michel Suleiman.”
“The Lebanese people are fed up with the wars of others on Lebanon's soil and they want a solution,” Murr added.
"To be honest with myself and the public opinion, I don't think that the new cabinet will be formed tomorrow, the day after tomorrow or next week, and when the president says he wants an inclusive cabinet, that means that Hizbullah must be represented in it, and if there is consensus, the presidents can form a cabinet and relaunch dialogue simultaneously,” Murr went on to say.
The talks are part of the meetings Berri's envoys are holding with top leaders and heads of parliamentary blocs to brief them on the speaker's initiative that is aimed at ending the country's political crisis.
Berri has called for a five-day conclave under Suleiman at Baabda palace to discuss the form and policy statement of the future cabinet, revive talks on a new electoral law, and support the military to deal with arms proliferated in several regions, in addition to addressing a national defense strategy, a reference to Hizbullah's controversial weapons.
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