Hezbollah delegation holds second meeting with Jumblat

A Hezbollah delegation comprising secretary-general’s aide Hussein Khalil and Coordination and Liaison Officer Wafiq Safa held talks overnight in Clemenceau with Progressive Socialist Party chief Walid Jumblat, in the second such meeting between the two parties in several weeks.

Nidaa al-Watan newspaper said the conferees “continued the discussions over the questions and concerns that Jumblat had raised with the delegation during the first Clemenceau meeting that was held on the eve of sea demarcation with Israel.”

Highly informed sources meanwhile told the daily that Hezbollah is seeking “calm and purposeful dialogue” with Jumblat to “explore rapprochement possibilities and strengthen the points of agreement between the two sides over the impending critical junctures, topped by the presidential election.”

Jumblat for his part is “showing openness as to engaging in consultations with everyone in a bid to break the state of deadlock that is destructive for Lebanon and all Lebanese,” the sources added.

The PSP’s al-Anbaa newspaper meanwhile said the two parties discussed “the available means to exit the presidential election impasse,” adding that Jumblat emphasized that the country “can no longer further waste of time as to the election of a president amid the explosive factors that are undermining all of life’s social and economic requirements.”