Fayyad says Hezbollah open to 'any dialogue over pending files'

MP Ali Fayyad of Hezbollah has stressed that the party is “open to any domestic dialogue course launched by the Lebanese state to address the pending files.”

“The official Lebanese stances have reflected deep understanding of the importance of dialogue in protecting the domestic stability that is threatened by the U.S. stances and policies that are in the service of Israel,” Fayyad added.

“There is a direct threat to Lebanese stability in pressing the Lebanese Army to disarm Hezbollah as they say; besieging Lebanon financially and withholding aid it from it; obstructing the reconstruction process; fabricating lies about the role of its ports, the last of which the targeting of Beirut port with the aim of subjecting it to U.S. security hegemony; and in providing cover to the assassinations that the Israeli enemy is conducting,” Fayyad warned.

President Joseph Aoun announced Thursday that “Hezbollah has shown a lot of leniency and flexibility over the issue of cooperating in the weapons file according to a specific timeframe.”

Aoun added that “Hezbollah’s positivity must also be met with positivity and understanding of the new situation that the country is living.”

Aoun, Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam are “directly communicating with the aim of finding a complete solution for the file of the handover of Hezbollah’s arms,” MP Michel Moussa of Berri’s parliamentary bloc also said on Thursday.

“Cabinet will play the biggest executive role in this regard, in cooperation with the Lebanese Army,” Moussa added, in a radio interview.

“Speaker Berri is open to any dialogue and he had previously played a key role in finding compromises and solutions that can rescue the country,” Moussa went on to say.