Qaouq: We're not awaiting any foreign settlement

Hezbollah central council member Sheikh Nabil Qaouq on Monday stressed that his party and its allies are “not awaiting any foreign settlement -- neither bilateral nor among five parties -- that would impose on the Lebanese characteristics and names for the presidency.”

“Hezbollah, the Amal Movement, the allies and the friends have opened a horizon for resolving the presidential crisis through domestic consensus, away from foreign vetoes and specifications. As for the election of a challenge and confrontation president, this now belongs to the past, and we’re talking about the present and the future,” the Hezbollah official added.

“The challenge and confrontation camp exaggerated its size and endorsed slogans that were bigger than its reality and capabilities. It wanted to elect a challenge and confrontation president and this meant that it wanted to drag the country into domestic strife. They tried throughout 11 sessions and they failed and these sessions were enough to return them to their true sizes and to make them realize that their slogans were unrealistic and had no place in Lebanon,” Qaouq went on to say.

Commenting on the newly-reached Iranian-Saudi reconciliation agreement, the Hezbollah official said it represents “a dual strategic failure for Israel and America and a fatal blow to the Israeli-American scheme for the creation of an Arab-Israeli NATO against Iran.”

He added: “The region has entered a new phase, which is certainly is not in the interest of America and Israel, which is screaming of pain, because all its normalization dreams did not lead to besieging Iran nor to ending the (Palestinian) intifada.”