Geagea slams govt. for letting Hezbollah 'turn country into battlefield'

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Friday charged that “instead of performing its duties to achieve the interests of Lebanon and its people,” the caretaker government has “ceded the decision to a party and allowed it to turn the country into a battlefield,” apparently referring to Hezbollah and its clashes with Israel.

“It would have been possible to avoid everything that is happening today through the election of a president, had the obstructors stopped their obstruction,” Geagea said, during a meeting with British Ambassador to Lebanon Hamish Cowell.

“We will not witness any stability in the region without resolving the Palestinian cause and it’s about time there were stances coupled with actions in this file which has exhausted the region and the peoples of Lebanon and Palestine for more than 70 years,” Geagea added.

The LF leader also thanked the United Kingdom for “supporting the Lebanese security institutions, topped by the Lebanese Army,” hoping this support “will continue in these difficult days, in light of the army’s reliable role in consolidating stability and implementing U.N. resolutions, topped by Resolution 1701.”